Hitting Home Runs Quotes:

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

- Roger Maris

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Running, Hitting Home Runs

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

topic: Sports, Running, Baseball, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

topic: Leadership, Baseball, Running, Nobody Cares, Left Field

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

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

topic: Baseball, Boys, Men, Inspirational Baseball, Motivational Baseball

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

topic: Baseball, Running, Hurt, Major League Baseball, Major League

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

topic: Running, Home, Long, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Roberto Clemente

topic: Running, Team, Home, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Babe Ruth

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

topic: Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Inspirational, Sports, Running, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Baseball

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

topic: Sports, Running, Home, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

topic: Baseball, Running, Home, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Bill Dickey

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

topic: Running, Home, Play, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

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

topic: Baseball, Swings, Missing, Yankees Baseball, Great Baseball

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

topic: Running, Home, Special, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

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

topic: Running, Home, Kids, Home Run, Black Or White

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

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

topic: Sports, Baseball, Running, Sportsman Spirit, Famous Baseball

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

topic: Running, Baseball, Home, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Running, Home, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Casey Stengel

topic: Sports, Baseball, Running, Home Run, Baseball Hitting

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

- Yogi Berra

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Running, Home, Swings, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Yogi Berra

source: 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

topic: Funny, Motivational, Baseball, Baseball Coach, Baseball Team

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

topic: Running, Home, Fishing, Hitting Home Runs

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

topic: Running, Home, Apples, Hitting Home Runs

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

- Casey Stengel

topic: Running, Home, Yankees, Hitting Home Runs

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

topic: Running, Home, Thinking, Home Run, Hitting Home Runs

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

- Warren Spahn

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

topic: Running, Zero, Home, Twenty One, Hitting Home Runs

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

- Bill Bryson

source: "Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2013.

topic: Summer, Running, Home, Hitting Home Runs

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

- Kristen Stewart

source: "Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

topic: Running, Mean, Home, Unique Things, Hitting Home Runs

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Running, Business, Home, Dominating, Hitting Home Runs

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

- Hank Aaron

topic: Baseball, Running, Mistake, One On One, Hitting Home Runs

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

- Barack Obama

topic: Running, Country, Home, Hitting Home Runs

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

- Ryan Braun

topic: Running, Growing Up, Home, Hitting Home Runs

The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).

- Seth Godin

topic: Running, Home, Writing, Takeaways, Hitting Home Runs

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Running, Home, Thinking, Hitting Home Runs

I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.

- Carlos Delgado

topic: Running, Smart, Home, Hard Way, Hitting Home Runs

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

- Derrek Lee

topic: Running, Home, Trying, Hitting Home Runs

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

- Mike Schmidt

topic: Running, Home, Hitting, Hitting Home Runs