Best Baseball Hitting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.”

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Author:Ted Williams

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

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Author:Ted Williams

“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.”

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Author:Ted Williams

“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.”

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

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

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Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

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

“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.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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.”

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Author:Willie Mays

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

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Author:Jackie Robinson

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

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Book:My Prison Without Bars

Source: My Prison Without Bars

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

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Author:Pete Rose

“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?”

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

“How can you think and hit at the same time?”

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

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

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Author:Yogi Berra

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

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

“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.”

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Book:Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

Source: Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

“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.”

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

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

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Author:Ted Williams

“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.”

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Author:Carl Yastrzemski

“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.”

“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.”

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

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Author:Ty Cobb

“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.”

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Author:Leo Durocher

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

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

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Author:Bryant Gumbel

“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.”

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

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Author:Tim McCarver

“My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

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

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Author:Babe Ruth

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

“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.”

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Author:Don Drysdale

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

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Author:Steve Hovley

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

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

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Author:Joe Schultz

“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.”

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

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Author:Woodie Held

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

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Author:Walter Johnson

“Swing hard in case you hit it.”

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Author:Dan Marino

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

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Author:Willie Mays

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

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Author:Ty Cobb

“I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.”

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