Good Hitting Quotes

#1. There is nothing wrong with [pitching by committee] in mid-week [games]. It creates unique problems for hitters. I think it creates more problems for good-hitting teams than it does for the other teams.

Wayne Graham

#2. I feel good hitting in the three-hole. I guess that's where everybody wants to be. You want the responsibility of hitting in the middle of the lineup.

Carlos Gonzalez

#3. Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Casey Stengel

#4. A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

Bill Robinson

#5. I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

Joe Namath

#6. Good God, that felt amazing."
"Hitting me?"
"Yes," I said, glaring back at him breifly.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#7. We're not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we're playing good, I'll let you know.

Tony Dungy

#8. I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

Laz Alonso

#9. There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

Luke Donald

#10. Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.

Michael Neill

#11. I'm good at looking good with weapons and stunts. But if you put a bull's eye in front of me and asked me to hit it, I'd say the chances of me hitting it are about one in a million!

Evangeline Lilly

#12. I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.

Jack Nicklaus

#13. For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.

Larry Fitzgerald

#14. If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

Bernard Baruch

#15. There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

Serena Williams

#16. I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

Stephen Lang

#17. A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently

Richard Posner

#18. Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

Edd Roush

#19. After hitting two balls into the water- By God, I've got a good mind to jump in and make it four.

Simon Hobday

#20. If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Dan Uggla

#21. I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

Mike Schmidt

#22. I've always had a knack for hitting the mark perfectly. Even when I'm walking or running, I'm very good at not having to look down.

Corey Haim

#23. I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good.

Danielle LaPorte

#24. Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.

Eli Manning

#25. The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters and garnering all the adulation that goes with it. But, if you're not hitting or not throwing well, or are injured, you better look for fun someplace else.

Dave Winfield

#26. I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

Quentin Tarantino

#27. Moral virtue is a mean ... between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; ... it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

Aristotle.

#28. Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.

Lee Trevino

#29. Good luck hitting a skinny little schooner cutting through the waves bound for fortune and glory."
"I'll quote you on that when a cannonball lands in my lap," said Nina.

Leigh Bardugo

#30. In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pretty. When you're in archery, you can't try to force it step-by-step-by-step. Then the shot doesn't flow and it's not a good shot. If you just let the performance flow, it's really beautiful.

Miranda Leek

#31. Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.

Butch Harmon

#32. I'm not very good at practice. But if you tell yourself you love the hole and love hitting it on the fairway, it's a big difference.

Barry Lane

#33. The cash held by US companies are hitting all time records. Companies are using some of this money to buy back their own stock at record rates. When a company is doing this it is saying to it's investors: We don't have any good ideas what to do with this, so here--maybe you do.

Geoff Colvin

#34. I like hitting fourth and I like the good batting average. But what I do every day behind the plate is a lot more important because it touches so many more people and so many more aspects of the game.

Thurman Munson

#35. Hitting at the top of the order is a good thing. You get more at-bats. I'm excited to see how this develops.

Chase Utley

#36. The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.

Ernie Els

#37. It's kind of exciting again. I'm doing everything right, right now. I'm driving the ball well and I'm hitting some pretty good irons and giving myself opportunities.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#38. In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

Mickey Mantle

#39. I like being done up! I love going to events and wearing fabulous gowns. I like hitting that spot of doing what feels good for me. If it makes other people happy, great; if it doesn't, then that's great, too!

Soledad O'Brien

#40. There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

Robert Palmer

#41. I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

Warren Spector

#42. It was like hitting the snooze button on your alarm - your sleep in that window is never very good, since you know it's borrowed time, and that it will be over all too soon.

Morgan Matson

#43. It was lovely meeting you.Tell Ember I said good-bye."
"You're welcome here anytime, Princess," Thomas said, and I could actually hear Annali hitting him in the arm as I walked out of the cottage.

Amanda Hocking

#44. What are books good for?"
"Hitting intruders?" Nick mumbled. He rubbed his eyes again. "Doorstops. Insomnia. Special interrogation techniques. Silencing bedmates in the middle of the night.

Abigail Roux

#45. I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.

Eric Davis

#46. I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

Jim Thome

#47. 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

#48. I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

Albert Pujols

#49. Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

Stefan Edberg

#50. 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.

Rabbit Maranville

#51. I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.

Tim Henman

#52. It always felt good typing up a review on a book I enjoyed and I went all out, finding bizarre pictures to emphasis the wow factor. I preffered ones with cute kittens and llamas. And Dean Winchester. Hitting 'publish post' cracked a smile.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#53. To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.

Roy Campanella

#54. If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.

Vijay Singh

#55. I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

Lee Trevino

#56. They also carried knobbly sticks, used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life.

J.K. Rowling