Hitting Home Runs Quotes

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

  Roger Maris

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

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• Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

  Ken Harrelson

  Leadership, Baseball, Running

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

  Roy Campanella

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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• Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.

  Jay Leno

  Baseball, Running, Hurt

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• When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Running, Home

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

  Roberto Clemente

  Running, Team, Home

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• I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Running, Home, Four

  "Morning Briefing: Babe Ruth Was Not a Superstitious Man, Except on 714 Occasions". The Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1982.

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Running, Home

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• How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. 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, Running, Home

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• I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

  Bill Dickey

  Running, Home, Play

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

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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, Missing

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

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• No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Home, Special

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• 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.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Kids

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

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• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Running, Home

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

  Yogi Berra

  Running, Home, Swings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Home, Fishing

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• You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Home, Apples

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

  Casey Stengel

  Running, Home, Yankees

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• I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

  Willie Stargell

  Running, Home, Thinking

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