Hank Aaron Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

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  Sports, Baseball, Practice

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

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  Funny, Sports, Baseball

• I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.

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  Baseball, Knows, Off Season

• I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

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  Baseball, Running, Home

• I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

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  Sports, Baseball, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about Stan Musial, Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

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  Baseball, League, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

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  Smile, Sports, Baseball

  As quoted in the July 31, 1956 issue of "The Milwaukee Journal"; reproduced in "Baseball's Greatest Quotations : An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore" by Paul Dickson, (p. 2), 2009.

• 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.

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  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

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  Baseball, Running, Mistake

  "Hammerin' back at racism". www.espn.com.

• You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

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  Baseball, Hands, Long

• I had just turned 20, and Jackie told me the only way to be successful at anything was to go out and do it. He said baseball was a game you played every day, not once a week.

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  Baseball, Successful, Games

• There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.

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  Girl, Baseball, Sex

• I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.

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  Baseball, Running, Home

• I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

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  Baseball, Home, Balls

• 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.

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  Sports, Baseball, Running

• Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

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  Baseball, Clean

• I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

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  Baseball, Long, Brave

  Hank Aaron, Furman Bisher (1974). “Aaron”, Ty Crowell Company

• The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

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  Baseball, Want, Firsts

• Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

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  Baseball, Balls, Helping

• Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

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  Baseball, Mean, Differences

• I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

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  Smile, Baseball, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

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  Baseball, Running, Wall

• I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

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  Baseball, Years, Names

• I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Years, White

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