Quotes About Baseball

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

See the ball; hit the ball.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I would like to get 3,000 hits.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

You don't get hits if you're depressed.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

It's hard enough to get four hits in a Major League Baseball game, yet alone have them all be the right ones and the right sequence.

When you don't get hits it's depressing.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

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.

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 line-drive hitter.

You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.

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

I'm not scared of it. I'm not shy of it or afraid of it. It's just funny to think of me as a three-hole hitter.

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'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.