After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. — Mickey Mantle
Can I be cocky for a second? If I hit a home run 80 percent of the times, and you want to talk about the 20 times I miss swinging the bat, I’m okay with that. — Jon Taffer
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. — Tommy Lasorda
Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. — Rod Carew
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' — Mickey Mantle
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. — Warren Spahn
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. — Sandy Koufax
Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs. — Bob Uecker
Short Hitting Home Runs Quotes
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. — Babe Ruth
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. — Duke Snider
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose
My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it. — Tommy Lasorda
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. — Ted Williams
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
Hitting Home Runs Image Quotes
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Hit Home Quotes
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
I've know Jeezy before he was Jeezy. I've been down with Cash Money from back in the day. So these are real relationships. I'm there for them and they're there for me. And they know if I'm going to make a record with somebody, I'm gonna hit a home run. — DJ Khaled
To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else. — Frank DeFord
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again. — Waylon Jennings
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. — Roy Campanella
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do. — Mick Fanning
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. — Roger Maris
To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys. — Roy Campanella
As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see. — Ichiro Suzuki
Home Run Quotes
Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home. — Snoop Dogg
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. — James Joyce
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. — Mary Church Terrell
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. — Twyla Tharp
My take is that this is not a home run yet, because they haven't really figured out what this is. But there's good evidence that supports their hypothesis nicely. — Daniel Lieberman
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun. — David Gilmour
I think for many of us - speaking for just a pocket of the country - we trusted Obama. So when you leave your baby with your mom to watch, you don't run home and check the nanny cam. But now we've left the baby with Gary Busey, so we're going to be a lot more on it. — John Mulaney
Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart. — Pablo Neruda
Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho
Baseball Hitting Quotes
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball. — Mickey Mantle
Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. — Roger Angell
It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day? — Jocko Willink
Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. — Branch Rickey
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. — Steve Busby
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing — Dave Pelzer
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. — Mickey Mantle
Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball. — Neil Simon
I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination and technically hit a baseball. — Barry Bonds
Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out. — Ichiro Suzuki
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him. — Hank Aaron
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot. — Babe Ruth
It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more. — Tim Purpura
In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base. — Ken Harrelson
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. — Casey Stengel
Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface. — Roy Campanella
When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object. I knew immediately what it was. That was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx. — Lefty Gomez
It doesn't matter if I hit a home run. It doesn't matter if we win a game. It doesn't matter if I go four for four. Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about. — Albert Pujols
Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back. — Ryne Sandberg
Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight. — Mark Teixeira
You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns. — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame. — Frank Thomas
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. — Casey Stengel
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs. — Roberto Clemente
Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it. — Bert Campaneris
So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in the clutch, Tom Matchick's home run to beat Baltimore in the ninth inning, then Daryl Patterson striking out the side to beat them in the ninth. Excitement every day in the ballpark. — Ernie Harwell
I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me. — Ernie Banks
I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet. — Carl Yastrzemski
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. — Walter Johnson
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading. — Babe Ruth
I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. — Willie Stargell
One of the reasons I appreciate being in a Pirates uniform is the greats who have worn it in the past. There was Bill Mazeroski hitting the walk-off home run to win the World Series. There was Roberto Clemente wearing the number 21. There was Pops: Willie Stargell. There was Dave Parker: Cobra. — Andrew McCutchen
I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on. — Torii Hunter
The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging. — Hank Aaron
Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts — Marc Andreessen
I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs. — Ryan Braun
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits. — Tim Ferriss
You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run. — Steve Wozniak
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. — Mickey Mantle
I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run. — Bill Dickey
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