Top 1200 Home Runs Quotes & Sayings

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

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground.

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

I don't hit home runs in BP.

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.

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.

(Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.

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

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

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

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

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

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

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

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

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

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

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

I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.

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.

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.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.

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.

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.

I pride myself on average, not home runs.

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

It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the system. As they make their way, we'll have some tough decisions down the road. I'm just glad to have this one bat in our lineup that can drive in 100 runs, hit 25 to 30 home runs at least, and in our ballpark, maybe more.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

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.

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

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

On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

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

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

If you give a guy 1,000 opportunities and he hits 30 home runs or 500 opportunities and he hits 30 home runs, it's not the same thing. I know. This is what I do for a living, and I know who is better at what I do.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.

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