Top 30 Baseball Hitter Quotes

#1. I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

James Carville

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1735965
#2. The eminent strategy had won yesterday,
but defeat will be felt by enemy tomorrow.

Toba Beta

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1013283
#3. There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

Ted Williams

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1857952
#4. The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

Rick Wise

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1841309
#5. 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.

Monte Irvin

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1721152
#6. The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1666043
#7. Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.

Katie Couric

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1495716
#8. The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

John Owen

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1477066
#9. The naked pinch hitter takes only one thing to the plate: his raw, and somewhat irrational, confidence in himself. That this confidence is so unreasonable adds to its dignity.

Thomas Boswell

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1381520
#10. A no-hitter is a freaky thing,' Tweet said. 'Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents.

Duane Decker

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1377639
#11. I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.

Jandy Nelson

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1374030
#12. He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Sandy Koufax

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1285759
#13. A no-hitter secures a pitcher's spot on an elite yet diverse list that embraces Hall of Famers, struggling journeymen, and wide-eyed rookies.

Dirk Lammers

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1235744
#14. Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

Reggie Jackson

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1211807
#15. Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

Doug Harvey

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1131768
#16. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.

Barry Svrluga

Baseball Hitter Quotes #1130856
#17. The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

Brad Lidge

Baseball Hitter Quotes #967411
#18. 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.

Jay Mohr

Baseball Hitter Quotes #843323
#19. Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.

George Will

Baseball Hitter Quotes #733755
#20. A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

Richie Ashburn

Baseball Hitter Quotes #712056
#21. He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball Hitter Quotes #629771
#22. I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Baseball Hitter Quotes #629043
#23. There's different kinds of laughs. It's like a baseball lineup: this guy's your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we're gonna win.

Jerry Seinfeld

Baseball Hitter Quotes #607233
#24. A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Ted Willams

Baseball Hitter Quotes #547856
#25. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

Baseball Hitter Quotes #454505
#26. A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Pete Rose

Baseball Hitter Quotes #450659
#27. I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

Albert Einstein

Baseball Hitter Quotes #288728
#28. I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

Carlos Delgado

Baseball Hitter Quotes #230282
#29. My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball Hitter Quotes #167667
#30. I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.

Halston Sage

Baseball Hitter Quotes #19663

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