A Quote by Babe Ruth

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

Babe Ruth

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Babe Ruth
American - Baseball Player
February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948

He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.

Ty Cobb

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Bob Feller

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

Carl Yastrzemski

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

Ted Williams

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

Pete Rose

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

Ken Griffey Jr.

Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.

Goose Gossage

Anytime a pitcher hasn't faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter.

Clayton Kershaw

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Don Drysdale

Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record

Michael Lewis

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Ted Williams

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

Ted Williams

When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.