The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. — Earl Weaver
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. — Steve Jobs
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. — Babe Ruth
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. — Babe Ruth
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. — Tommy Lasorda
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs. — Babe Ruth
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
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. — Red Smith
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
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. — Babe Ruth
Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs. — Bob Uecker
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. — Ted Williams
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. — Pete Rose
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. — Duke Snider
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. — Satchel Paige
Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. — Babe Ruth
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. — Rick Wise
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. — Willie Mays
My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone. — Mickey Rivers
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. — Frank Robinson
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. — Yogi Berra
Top 10 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
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
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
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
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
Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. — Phyllis Diller
Home Run Image Quotes
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Baseball Home Run Quotes
He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus. — George Brett
Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME! — Dave Niehaus
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
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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
I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown. — Hank Aaron
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
Home is where someone runs to greet you.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. — Hank Aaron
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
And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that? — Mel Allen
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
First Home Run Quotes
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
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch. — Steve Carlton
I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend I'll? be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing as well, just to have a bit of fun. — Robbie Williams
[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out. — Warren Spahn
The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. — Chili Davis
My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career. — Mark Teixeira
As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs. — Derrek Lee
The lowlights... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you. — Jill Douglas
He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit
my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm
living his dream. — Jorge Posada
To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that. — Mark McGwire
One Home Run Quotes
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
We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home. — Annie Leonard
Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run — Babe Ruth
When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace. — Pearl S. Buck
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one. — Lewis Carroll
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another. — Bill Lee
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
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
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
Hit A Home Run Quotes
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
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
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot. — Babe Ruth
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
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
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
Run Away From Home Quotes
I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure. — James Joyce
Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available. — Zygmunt Bauman
I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision. — David Ortiz
When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark. — Rodney Dangerfield
I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home. — Gerry Lindgren
Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age. — Red Skelton
The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time. — George Carlin
The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65. — Tom Verlaine
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. — Edward Young
Hitting Home Runs Quotes
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. — Roger Maris
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
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits. — Casey Stengel
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
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
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
Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. — Satchel Paige
When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch. — Adrian Beltre
I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate. — Harmon Killebrew
Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend. — Bob Uecker
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements. — Bill Klem
Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like. — John Irving
I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world. — Billy Graham
Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time. — Rickey Henderson
Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side. — Warren Spahn
Home Base Quotes
The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad. — Tommy Douglas
Every fighter should really do that if they can, because if you build a fan base at home first, then once they receive you at home, it'll be easier to be received elsewhere. — Roy Jones Jr.
Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation. — Balaji Srinivasan
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. — Joe Garagiola
Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them - especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business. — Paul Zane Pilzer
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. — Sophocles
But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things. — Warren Buffett
Home-based businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments in our economy, and that trend will only continue, as the age of the corporation, which began barely a century ago, now gives way to the age of the entrepreneur. — Paul Zane Pilzer
The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less. — Ed Rendell
The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth. — Lesslie Newbigin
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 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
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun. — Alex D. Linz
The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig. — Stanley Druckenmiller
My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me. — Sean Astin
The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Bristol in jeans and a T-shirt running around after the kids or shopping in the Co-op. — Carol Vorderman
I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff. — Bear Grylls
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water. — Claude Monet
The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs. — Stanley Druckenmiller
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened. — Sayings
Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home. — Charles Sheffield
I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician. — Hugh Masekela
I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups. — Rita Rudner
Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs. — Pete Rose
When I'm at home alone, I run up the stairs naked. It's quite funny. — Louis Tomlinson
A walk is as good as a home run. — Tim Mccarver
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