Homers Quotes

#1. Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Reggie Jackson

#2. Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

Dick Stuart

#3. Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

Mark McGwire

#4. When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Gary Sheffield

#5. Ortiz is now synonymous with walk-off homers. After all, he hit a total of nine game-ending blasts from 2002-07. And that was just in the regular season. It was his blasts in the 2004 postseason that cemented his legacy in Boston.

Tucker Elliot

#6. There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.

Tom Bissell

#7. I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

Mark Grace

#8. I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

David Ortiz

#9. I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

Home Run Baker

#10. If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.

Prince Fielder

#11. Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

Ralph Kiner

#12. If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

Catfish Hunter

#13. Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Stephen Rodrick

#14. I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.

Roger Maris

#15. Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

Robert Anton Wilson

#16. The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#17. You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

Eric Davis

#18. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Earl Weaver

#19. Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.

Rafael Soriano

#20. Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

Jerry Coleman

#21. When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Joe Torre

#22. There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

Eric Davis

#23. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

Antoni Tapies

#24. Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...

Pliny The Younger

#25. Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper

Paul Erdos

#26. If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#27. Sexual reproduction and food -- humans' two favorite subjects.

Melissa Landers