Top 230 Hitter Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.
I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!
Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.
The world will end before there is another .400 hitter. . . . I think that was mentioned in the Bible.
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."
I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.
I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.
The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.
I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.
Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.
I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.
I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.
All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).
I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.
Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.
People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn't suit me, because I'm a long hitter, I'm a bomber.
For me, being involved in a no-hitter or a perfect game is one of the most exciting things in baseball.
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
I believe I'm a middle-of-the-order hitter capable of driving in runs. If I stay healthy, I'll get back to that level.
I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.
I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run.
I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.
I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.
I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
I'm a firm believer in staying out of the way. When you're on a team and the guy's throwing a no-hitter, you don't talk to them. You let them do their thing.
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.
The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.
If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.
At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.
All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.
I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
I never experienced the joy of being on the good guy's side of the perfect game or no-hitter. Karma.
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.
Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.
I had an incredible experience living in New York, playing for the Yankees, to go through all of the things I did, including the no-hitter. It was a very memorable time.
Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
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.'
Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?
I'm not saying this in an egotistical way, but I think there's value in having a good hitter behind the plate and being able to put a bat at first base as well.
I'm not scared of it. I'm not shy of it or afraid of it. It's just funny to think of me as a three-hole hitter.
Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.
The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.
He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.
