Quotes About Hitting

I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.

I bat righty.

I could always hit the ball really far, but you don't need to be strong to do that.

The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

Some players just have the natural stroke that you throw them in the lineup and all of the sudden they turn on a ball and hit it out of the ballpark.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Hit 'em where they ain't.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I've hit 1, 2 and surprisingly I've hit 3 most of my life. Not that I'm going to be hitting 3, but I feel like those are three really different positions in the lineup. And I feel like I've done all of them. I know what's expected at each one of those, and I feel like you can take that experience away.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway (Mays).

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Personally, I think fans would rather watch a DH hit than a pitcher hit.

When I hit, I felt I was in control of the home-plate area, and it was important that I felt that way. If I let the pitcher control it, it would give him an advantage.

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

Watching National League pitchers trying to hit or even bunt is depressing.

I watched a little bit of Altuve - how he hits, the pitches that he hits.

There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.