Baseball Hitting Quotes

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

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