When you feel like you're going to have a low-scoring game, why not have one of your better hitters have a chance? All of a sudden you're in the ninth inning and you have one of your best hitters on deck that doesn't get up. I always think about that.
I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.
Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don't like either.
For me, that's the difference in good hitters and bad hitters. If you can stay in the zone and make them throw you pitches, you'll be able to drive the ball a little bit better.
I notice a lot of hitters fraternize with pitchers. I see guys laughing and giggling before the game. These are the same pitchers who are trying to beat them. I've never seen Roger Clemens talking to hitters before the game. Bob Gibson was the same way. Man, I don't even see (Greg) Maddux playing golf with hitters.
That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.
I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball
Everything that I've done in my life is always I wanted to be the best in everything I do. I want to be the best husband, the best dad, the best receiver.
Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.
Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.
Jews are the best dressers in the world. They buy the best clothes, the best homes, the best cars. The best of everything. The only thing is, they get it for less.
Paul was just the most real guy ever. The best big brother, the best son, and the best father. The best everything.
Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.