Leadoff Hitter Quotes

#1. What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

Jack McKeon

#2. I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

Carl Crawford

#3. A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Nolan Ryan

#4. I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

Johnny Damon

#5. I'm the leadoff hitter, it's my job to lead this team. I know people say the way I go is how the Mets go, so I'll do whatever it takes.

Jose Reyes

#6. I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

Ryan Braun

#7. Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

Peter Cundill

#8. The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.

Max Anders

#9. [Samantha Dunn] wrote that when God wants your attention, first He throws feathers. After that, He starts throwing bricks.

Claire Fontaine

#10. Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Sarah Vowell

#11. We used our minds like weapons clenched tightly in our fists, struggling to return them back to their holsters without injuring ourselves in the process.

Alexandra Bracken

#12. Life just is and the gods have their plans for us. We're powerless against them. In the end, we are what our pasts have made us and we live the lives the gods have chosen for us.
-Syn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Chase is playing escort this morning. He gets cranky if we keep him waiting too long."

"We wouldn't want the man with the Taser to get cranky.

Amanda E. Alvarez

#14. Never complete. Never whole.
White skin and an African soul.

Michelle Frost

#15. People think the leadoff spot is a big deal. I tell people you're going to lead off the first inning, and after that, you can be a No. 4 hitter or No. 3 hitter.

Andruw Jones

#16. I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Pamela Anderson

#17. One shouldn't forget his goal ever, whether he has to lose his personality on way to get it. Because to recognize aim and to achieve it, is the real life.

M.H. Rakib