Quotes About Hitting Home Runs

#1. We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

Barack Obama

#2. It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

Mike Schmidt

#3. He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.

Meister Eckhart

#4. 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

#5. The layout was griping, the glide is awesome. Two ten-inch fins up, way up.

Roger Ebert

#6. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Babe Ruth

#7. I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Roberto Clemente

#8. What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

Babe Ruth

#9. I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

Nas

#10. We teach people how to treat us.

Phil McGraw

#11. When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Timothy Noah

#12. I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

Kathy Baker

#13. The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.

Bob Marley

#14. Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

John Sladek

#15. I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.

Carl Yastrzemski

#16. There is a common perception that there are two alternative libertarian positions on immigration: government-controlled borders and open borders. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is only one libertarian position on immigration, and that position is open immigration or open borders.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#17. The artist and the alcoholic have parallel paths. They both go into the darkness, but the alcoholic gets stuck there. The artist (if she is not also addicted) goes into the darkness and is transformed by the experience and comes out more alive.

Natalie Goldberg

#18. Unfortunately, (the rumors) are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

Jason Giambi

#19. God, I wish you could've been there.

J.D. Salinger

#20. I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

David Ortiz

#21. In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

Yoenis Cespedes

#22. I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

Justin Morneau

#23. Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.

Joan Bauer

#24. The only sounds here were lazy, ponderous, gentle sounds. A bee hung low in the warm afternoon haze, and he watched it unafraid, listened to the dull electric razor sound of its wings cutting the air. Birds sang sweet and unseen, and a hundred eyes watched him from the dark.

Michael Montoure

#25. Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

Jennifer Capriati

#26. As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

Derrek Lee

#27. This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

Mickey Mantle

#28. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!

Mehek Bassi

#29. In a land of sand and ruin and gold
There shone one woman, and none but she

Algernon Charles Swinburne