Leadoff Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job!
And five nose running brats in love with Batman

Gregory Corso

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Carl Crawford

#6. 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

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

Johnny Damon

#8. No-one can speak their words through my mouth or force my hand to write their dreams. I script my own destiny.

Helen Noble

#9. Sitting there I had a vision of the world with nations, systems, economic blocks, hardening and consolidating; a world where it would become increasingly ludicrous even to talk about freedom, or the individual conscience.

Doris Lessing

#10. I have invented the Thermometer style.

Josef Albers

#11. No, I'm not the prototypical leadoff man. I'm not the prototypical anything. I just try to be the prototypical Jimmy Rollins.

Jimmy Rollins

#12. Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.

Ron Fournier

#13. 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

#14. We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

William Penn