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“I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.”

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“I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.”

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Author:Dick Stuart

“The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.”

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Author:Joe DiMaggio

“I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.”

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Author:Alex Rodriguez

“This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.”

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Book:The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

Source: The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract

“In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.”

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Book:Downtown Owl: A Novel

Source: Downtown Owl: A Novel

“Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.”

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Author:Ken Harrelson

“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!”

“We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.”

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

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“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

“Hitting is better than sex.”

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Author:Reggie Jackson

“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

“Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.”

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Author:George Will

“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.”

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Author:Robert Kagan

“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.”

“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.”

“Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“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

“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

“Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”

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Author:Barry Switzer

“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.”

“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.”

“Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?”

“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.”

“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

“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

“The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.”

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Author:Stan Musial

“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.”

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