Hitting Quotes

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Reason, Stand, Unfair

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt

Possible, Hit, Avoid

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck

Until, Second, Head

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Head, Lead

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.
Kobe Bryant

Win, Whatever, Water

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

Change, Blame, After

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
Barack Obama

Stop, Head, Turning

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
Theodore Roosevelt

Crime, Hit, Soft

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike Tyson

Fight, Before, Try

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Him, Enough, Playing

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
P. J. O'Rourke

Family, Wife, Two

I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.
Sean Connery

Woman, Same, Wrong

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

Getting, Golf, Spectators

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.
Eric Cantona

Important, Someone, Mean

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
Dave Barry

Far, Playing, Golf

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.
Jennifer Aniston

Funny, Hate, Making

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Casey Stengel

Good, Stop, Pitching

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
Neil Armstrong

Future, Game, Playing

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.
Brian Eno

Trying, Find, Fit

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
Daniel Radcliffe

Whole, Used, Joke

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.
Jerry Lewis

Pain, Heart, Tomorrow

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.
Joyce Carol Oates

Pain, Feeling, Winning

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.
Susan Sarandon

Love, Baseball, Making

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.
Shaun White

Family, Dad, Together

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
Gustav Mahler

Giving, Against, Head

I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern

Full, Europe, Oil

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn

Timing, Pitching, Upsetting

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
James Wolcott

School, Country, While

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
Jack Dempsey

Time, Thinking, Him

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