Quotes About Hitter

The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.

Davis, a lifetime .300 hitter who twice won the National League batting title, came over to the White Sox from the Mets in a major trade last winter ("Mets ckoo!")

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

We won. The media. We destroyed Barry Bonds, drove him crazy, turned the most disciplined and feared hitter the game has ever known into a fence-swinging hack, drained all the excitement out of his 714 home runs.

I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.

Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

Lower stress equals a calmer approach at the plate. Calm equals a still head, allowing us to see the ball better. Confidence and relaxation; the hitter's Holy Grail.

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

I see myself as a line-drive hitter first.

If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn't take a hot hitter out of the lineup.

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

I always talk about it like I'm a hitter first and if I'm doing things right and my body's in the right place, I drive the baseball.

I've always said, even batting leadoff, that I want to be a dangerous hitter.

I'm a different hitter than most.

I'm a line-drive hitter.

There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles... is a constant discovery.

I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.

I mean, I think I pride myself on being a good hitter so if I have to, my job changes and I have to adapt to do that.

I want to be an impact hitter. I want to be a guy that's in the lineup and he's an impact. I want people to be like, 'Arenado's coming up.'

I wouldn't describe myself as a home run hitter. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.