Baseball Hitting Quotes

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

  Woodie Held

  Baseball, Swings, Balls

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

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Swings, Hitting Home Runs

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

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

  Ty Cobb

  Sports, Baseball, Pitching

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• 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.

  Hank Aaron

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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• 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.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Mistake

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

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

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Baseball, Fear

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• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hitting, Fifty

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

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

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

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• 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.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Baseball, Dream, Morning

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• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Yoga

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• I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Golf, Mlb

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

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Baseball, Squares

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• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

  Pete Hamill

  Baseball, Morning, Kids

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• Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

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

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• 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.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

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

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

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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  Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

  Ted Williams

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

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

  Ted Williams

  Play, League, Bigs

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• Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square.

  Joe Schultz

  Baseball, Boys, Squares

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

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

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

  Yogi Berra

  Beauty, Baseball, Yankees

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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• 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.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

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

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• Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Baseball, Coaching

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

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