Top 1200 Home Runs Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

Any way I can produce runs and keep runs off the board for the other team, that's what I'm going to try to do.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

My mom's always asking me for hits and stolen bases and home runs and different things on Mother's Day and her birthday.

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

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.

Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

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 may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don't show up in the box score.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

The hunger for runs is always there, irrespective of whether I was getting runs or not.

It was everyone going up there to swing for the fences, because the home runs were what would get them on 'SportsCenter.' That really changed the mindset of the players.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.

When Love runs through the front door fear runs out the back.

It doesn't matter how many runs one person puts together. We want to get partnerships and get 400 runs on the board. One person can't get 400 runs on the board if there is nobody at the other end.

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

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

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

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.

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.

I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.

People always talk about going on offensive runs. But you can go on defensive runs too

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

If you had told me when I was a kid that I'd have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it'd probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

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

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

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

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

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

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.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.

When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.

He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.

I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

Every storm runs, runs out of rain

I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.

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

You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .