The offseason after the 2014 season, I worked with hitting coach Damon Mashore. I always had power in batting practice but couldn't take it into a game consistently. We made a little adjustment with my hands, lowered them a bit to get a consistent path to the ball, a natural uppercut to elevate the ball and backspin some balls.

Cody Bellinger

In my early work, my time in the batting cage, that's serious, and that's when I feel like I'm really working. That's where I have to lock in on my approach, make sure my mechanics are right, and make sure my mindset is right for the upcoming game. But then, when the game comes up, it's a game! You're supposed to have fun when you play games.

Aaron Judge

Work Time Age

Making our communities safer for all Americans, combatting longstanding prejudices, and ending discrimination should be issues where we can find common ground.

Abigail Spanberger

Where Unit UN

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Adam Carolla

Good Funny Age

If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don't want me to open the batting for England, it's going to hurt.

Alastair Cook

Want Tin Tells

Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?'

Alastair Cook

Change Car Wit

From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.

Alastair Cook

Good View Tin

I'm not some little soft touch. I will never take a backward step when batting, but I want to be respected as a nice guy, too.

Alastair Cook

War Respect Will

I've had a go at captaincy. Batting and bowling and captaincy turned out to be a bit too much.

Andrew Flintoff

Turned Turn Too Much

I had to stop being a student idiot and become more sensible and organised and that definitely improved my batting. I also reacted far more quickly to situations in Test cricket because I'd been a county captain. It made a huge difference.

Andrew Strauss

Use Us UN

I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.

Andrew Strauss

Writing Write Want

I loved captaining and trying to win games - but I wasn't enjoying batting any more.

Andrew Strauss

Love Yin Win

In high school, baseball was life. My senior year, I had the highest batting average on the team. I was one of the starting pitchers. I wanted to play Division III ball and eventually coach.

Anthony Ramos

Life Art Age

I have my own batting style and don't want to be compared with Kohli.

Babar Azam

Wit Want Tin

We are all really working hard to improve our batting.

Babar Azam

Work Working Hard Working

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

Ben Zobrist

Us Up Tin

I have natural talent when it comes to batting.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Tin Talent Tale

When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Tin T Self

The Oval has always been a good batting track, and there's not much for the bowlers.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Good Ways Way

I never thought in my dreams that I would score fifty in One-dayers: not fifty but match-winning knock because One-Day is a kind of format which doesn't suit my batting, as I am not the kind of batsman who can hit big sixes.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Dreams Would Winning

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Billy Bragg

Politics Art Way

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Bob Uecker

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Bob Woodward

I don't see myself as a father figure but as someone who the younger players can come to and talk to about cricket. Not just batting but cricket in general and I am ready to impart with any information or advice I have.

Brian Lara

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

Cameron Mackintosh

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Casey Stengel

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

Christine Pelosi

The offseason after the 2014 season, I worked with hitting coach Damon Mashore. I always had power in batting practice but couldn't take it into a game consistently. We made a little adjustment with my hands, lowered them a bit to get a consistent path to the ball, a natural uppercut to elevate the ball and backspin some balls.

Cody Bellinger

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

Dale Murphy

My kids would watch from the window and wave to me during batting practice.

Dave Martinez

I have always believed in my batting abilities. I have always put my hand up as a pure batsman and have enjoyed fielding as well. My ultimate aim is to play all formats as a batsman. I have done it before.

Dinesh Karthik

It is important that whenever you do get opportunities to practice, just get in some batting and be in a place where you feel if you get a chance to play, you can do well. It's important to be in that zone and be as practically ready as possible.

Dinesh Karthik

Playing at different positions is a challenge, and I've always believed that I can play in any situation and at any number in the batting order.

Dinesh Karthik

I am capable of batting at No. 4, from where I can build an innings. I have performed the role in the past. I have also been coming later down the order and donned the role of a finisher.

Dinesh Karthik

I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.

Dinesh Karthik

I have always enjoyed playing as a batsman. In the T20 format, I have been asked to play at six or seven. I have finished a few innings batting first and a few chasing. It feels good and it feels like yes I can do it.

Dinesh Karthik

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

Dizzy Dean

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.

Dontrelle Willis

I just enjoy batting. I love it. It's a craft and I love plugging away at it. I guess getting to do that in a match was the ultimate pleasure to be out there and do something I've been doing for a long time.

Ellyse Perry

I went from being one of the best players, batting .550, to not being able to do it mentally, hitting .200. I thought I was mentally tough. But I couldn't hit the ball.

Eric Weddle

For me, David Warner isn't just the future of Australian batting, he's the future for cricket in general because he can excel in any form of the game. I'm excited just watching him.

Fidel Edwards

I do enjoy batting - if the bowling's not quick!

Fidel Edwards

A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there's a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn't affect the second half of your season at all.

Frank Thomas

You've just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You've got to go out there and just keep playing.

Freddie Freeman

An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.

Garfield Sobers

I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

Garth Brooks

My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

Gary Carter

To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

Gautam Gambhir

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

Geoffrey Boycott

During the time I didn't play for England, they were losing Test matches, and the Yorkshire committee were telling me that I should be batting for my country. Then, when I decided to make myself available to play for England again in 1977, and Yorkshire lost a couple of matches in my absence, they criticised me for not being there.

Geoffrey Boycott

I'd love to see pitches start very dry all over the world, which is good for batting but means there will be turn - a cricket match without spinners is like a chess match without two important pieces - a less interesting game.

Geoffrey Boycott