Bunt Quotes

#1. Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

David Ogilvy

#2. I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

Mario Cuomo

#3. American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.

George Brett

#4. Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.

David Ogilvy

#5. 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.

Steve Finley

#6. Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

David Ogilvy

#7. Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?

Pete Rose

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

Ron Blomberg

#9. We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

Mickey Mantle

#10. But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball.

Adrian Beltre

#11. Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns.

Frank Wead

#12. Your goal as a hitter is to get on. And if the third baseman is playing back and letting you lay down a bunt, I don't have a problem with that, even if it's late in a no-hitter.

Bert Blyleven

#13. I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer. I knew when to take the extra base. I knew about the outfielder hitting the cutoff man. I knew when and how to bunt. I knew when to hit-and-run.

George Kell

#14. The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

Zack Wheat

#15. All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

Nellie Fox

#16. If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

Ryne Sandberg

#17. I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

Chili Davis

#18. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

Robin Hobb

#19. Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

Virginia Woolf

#20. Professor Morgan had called [Dooley] 'a lad of few words.' That wasn't true. There were words spilling around in him all the time. Too many words. His problem was organizing them.

Jan Karon

#21. People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth.

Paul Wall

#22. This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.

Andy Greenwald