Quotes About Home runs

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.

I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.

You're not necessarily going to sneak out many cheap ones, but the ones that are supposed to be homers are homers when you're playing at home.

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

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

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.

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

The players who score the most runs are home run hitters, not those with consistent batting records. "It's the same with trading. Consistency is something to strive for, but it's not always optimal. Trading is a waiting game. You sit and wait and make a lot of money all at once. The profits tend to come in bunches. The secret is to go sideways between the home runs, not lose too much between them."12