Quotes About Baseball

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

It happens throughout the year where your swing feels better, or it feels worse; you feel good, you feel bad.

There had never really been a female that was breaking down a swing. So when I'd walk into a clubhouse, I'd have to explain a little bit of who I was.

A couple things I'm gonna be remembered for: the hat backwards and the swing. And the smile.

I had a baseball swing my whole life. When I was growing up, everyone had a different, very specific softball swing that was very short. And I had a big stride and I had, you know, a baseball swing, and people did not like it.

Stay inside the ball, put the barrel on it, and swing hard.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

When you get strike one, strike two, you're putting pressure on them to swing at your pitches.

I've done it before where I get guys banging their bat on the ground after their second or third at-bat because you just have so many different combinations to try to get him to swing and miss.

I've always told everybody that hits behind me, swing at whatever you want because if you hit the ball in the gap, I'll score.

Brace yourself if you're a traditional hitting coach, I'm about to say something that will hurt your feelings. The best baseball swing is an uppercut.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

I don't really watch video, but I see the replay; like when I do strike out, and I'm walking back to the dugout, I look up and see if they do show the replay of me swinging and missing.

The big thing is, it's about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, 'Oh, this guy can't hit a curveball; this guy can't hit an off-speed pitch.' But it's about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.

The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

If you go back to the minors, you have to start swinging and hitting the ball again. I've been in the minors since the '70s semipros, let's put it that way.

Votto's a guy I love to watch. I think the numbers will tell you that he's the best in the game at swinging at strikes. By doing that, he gets himself in a lot of good counts.

I kind of realized that when I take more pitches I put better swings on them.

When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.

During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.