A Quote by J. D. Martinez

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

J. D. Martinez

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J. D. Martinez
American - Athlete
Born: August 21, 1987

I've gotten stronger, but I don't ever try to hit home runs. I stay with the same approach, just hit line drives. If you get under one and it goes out, it's a home run, but I don't feel any pressure to hit home runs.

Ryan Zimmerman

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.

Robinson Cano

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

Frank Thomas

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

I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

Justin Morneau

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

Craig Biggio

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Nick Johnson

I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

Ernie Banks

You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.

Xavier Becerra

But this is the point I want to make: When you talk about steroids and you talk about what it means to the game, the three greatest home run hitters of all time-Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, right? When they were 39 years old, how many home runs do you think they averaged? The three greatest home run hitters of all time averaged 18 home runs at age 39. Now, how many home runs did Barry Bonds hit when he was 39? He hit 73!

Carlton Fisk

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

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Babe Ruth

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

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

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.