Top 1200 Hitting Home Runs Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If I was just a guy who hit 24 home runs and drove in 100, I wouldn't be a special player.

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

There's no secret about it: Every team does things differently. Seattle runs their program one way. New England runs it another way. Philly runs it another way.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

By training with Ken Hahn, who comes from that full-contact karate school where he's hitting me in the back of the head while I'm hitting the bag, I learned that pain is a temporary state.

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

40 seems to be the new 25 in snooker so there is no rush, but I would like to start hitting the time where I'm more stable and regularly hitting the quarters and semis, push on and make some money.

When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate.

Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far - as much as a showman as he may be.

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

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

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.

I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and asked, 'What's on your skin? How did you get it?' And I tell them, 'It's from exercise!' So now my son will come home from a bike ride, take off his helmet and say, 'Look, Mom. I'm sweating! I just worked out!'

I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my average would drop.

I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!

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.

I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

My life is routine-obsessed. I'm OCD, and if I'm not at home, I always get up early and exercise. I don't crash and burn at night, not these days, so early-ish to bed. At home, I have three small boys who bring me down to earth with school runs and endless meals.

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

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

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

Oney Lorcan is such a hard-hitting dude, just like me. We go in there, two hard-hitting dudes, and the crowd are going to be taken aback, and that's our goal.

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

To me, hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

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.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

I used to feel like not scoring runs is the worst thing in life but I started thinking: 'No, at least I'm getting to go out on the field wearing the Indian jersey.' Not many get to do that. I am lucky. Now, if I get runs or don't get runs, I'm just going out there trying to enjoy my cricket.

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just weird. With all the games we played, neither one of us could hit one more home run? Obviously, it was supposed to go that way. It's a pretty cool thing, I guess.

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.

You're the only one in control over your golf ball. It's not like tennis: you're hitting a shot and somebody's hitting it back at you.

The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the same as hitting your employee or wife, and the issue become pretty clear when you think about it that way.

Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.

I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more.

I get the normal stats, like tackles and pass completion and high-intensity runs. I get them after every game to see how similar they are to every game and to make sure I'm hitting the targets - or not too far away from them.

The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

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.

Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me.

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

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.