Home Run Quotes - Page 3

• Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

  James Lee Burke

  Running, Home, Writing

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• The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

  Chili Davis

  Running, Home, Games

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• Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.

  George Brett

  Running, Home, Names

  Interview with C. Trent Rosecrans, www.cbssports.com. July 8, 2012.

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• Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

  Bert Campaneris

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

  Billy Mays

  Baseball, Running, Home

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

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

  Juliana Hatfield

  Running, Home, Watches

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• Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.

  Michael Covel

  Running, Home, Games

  Michael Covel (2011). “Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns”, p.81, FT Press

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• The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.

  Neil Young

  Music, Running, Taken

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• 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.

  Stan Musial

  Running, Home, Swings

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• I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

  Rickey Henderson

  Running, Home, Boys

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• Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

  Willie Mays

  Success, Baseball, Running

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• You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

  Dusty Baker

  Running, Home, Clogging Up

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• I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

  Bill Lee

  Running, Home, Play

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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• If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Running, Children, Home

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• I've know Jeezy before he was Jeezy. I've been down with Cash Money from back in the day. So these are real relationships. I'm there for them and they're there for me. And they know if I'm going to make a record with somebody, I'm gonna hit a home run.

  DJ Khaled

  Running, Real, Home

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• 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.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Running, Strong, Home

  "Sadaharu Oh Still Feels and Thinks the Game". www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2008.

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• In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

  Bobby Thomson

  Running, New York, Home

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• He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

  Nonito Donaire

  Running, Motivation, Home

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• Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I seen" ever escaped the keen ears of his eldest sister, who immediately corrected him. Mother sometimes thought Katherine a little severe when, in the interest of proper speaking, she would stop him in the midst of an exciting account of a home-run. There were times, thought Mother, when the spirit of the thing was so much more important than the flesh in which it was clothed.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Mother, Running, Home

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1999). “The Collected Short Works, 1920-1954”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• I remember facing him on opening day in 1987. It was Oakland at the Minnesota Twins, the first time I got him out on a breaking ball down-and-in and next at bat he hit the same pitch for a home run. I was telling my kids that story yesterday.

  Curt Young

  Running, Home, Kids

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• All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

  John Guare

  Beautiful, Running, New York

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• Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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