Top 100 Quotes About Home Runs
#1. I take my vote as a salute to the little guy, the one who doesn't hit 500 home runs. I was one of the guys that did all they could to win. I'm proud of my stats, but I don't think I ever got on for.
Joe Morgan
#2. 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
#3. It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.
Mike Schmidt
#4. Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.
Mark Teixeira
#6. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
Timothy Ferriss
#7. 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
#8. Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.
Craig Biggio
#9. I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.
Dave Winfield
#10. The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.
Derek Jeter
#11. If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's ... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully
#12. The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.
Lance Berkman
#13. I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.
Sammy Sosa
#14. I've gotten stronger, but I don't ever try to hit home runs. I stay with the same approach, just hit line drives. If you get under one and it goes out, it's a home run, but I don't feel any pressure to hit home runs.
Ryan Zimmerman
#15. I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.
Hank Aaron
#16. I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.
Mark McGwire
#17. I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
Mark McGwire
#18. Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.
Bill Bryson
#19. They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?
Andre Ethier
#20. You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.
Tony La Russa
#21. Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that's why they never hit any home runs. It's a safety issue.
Jay Leno
#22. Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.
Michael Lewis
#23. Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.
Curtis Granderson
#24. I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
James Gray
#25. I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.
Ryan Braun
#26. Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
Carl Crawford
#27. What a well-designed forecasting system can do is sort out which statistics are relatively more susceptible to luck; batting average, for instance, is more erratic than home runs.
Nate Silver
#28. It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
Roger Maris
#29. It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It's when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.
Monte Irvin
#30. Some of the longest home runs I've hit, I didn't actually realize they were going that far. Everyone says, 'What does it feel like to hit the ball that far?' Actually, there's no feeling at all. I know when the ball meets the bat whether or not it's left the park. It's a nice easy thing.
Mark McGwire
#31. You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris
#32. Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts
Marc Andreessen
#33. I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
Roberto Clemente
#34. Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.
Roger Maris
#35. I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron
#36. In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize it was pretty cool.
Prince Fielder
#37. I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.
Robinson Cano
#38. As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see.
Ichiro Suzuki
#39. You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
Xavier Becerra
#40. We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
Earl Weaver
#41. Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more.
Garrett Atkins
#42. What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
Babe Ruth
#43. He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.
Sparky Anderson
#44. David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
Juliana Hatfield
#45. Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.
Conan O'Brien
#46. 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
#47. In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
Julian Robertson
#48. Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.
George Vecsey
#49. Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.
Nicholas Kristof
#50. I pride myself on average, not home runs.
Bobby Abreu
#51. All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare
#52. No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
Lefty Gomez
#53. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Ray Dalio
#54. (Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.
Steve Carlton
#55. I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.
Nick Johnson
#56. The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.
Mark McGwire
#57. To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.
Mark McGwire
#58. I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) ... I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.
Frank Thomas
#59. The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs ... When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#60. If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.
Bill Hybels
#61. 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
#62. We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.
Leonard Mlodinow
#63. You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#64. 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
#65. If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.
Carl Yastrzemski
#66. Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
Walter Johnson
#67. Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.
Nancy Dunnan
#68. The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#69. Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.
George Brett
#70. If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.
Morgan Ensberg
#71. The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
#72. How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.
George Herman
#73. When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Sammy Sosa
#74. Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.
Bob Uecker
#75. Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
Pete Rose
#76. I have struck out more times than I can count, but I have hit many home runs as well".
~R. Alan Woods {2013]
R. Alan Woods
#77. Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
Stan Musial
#78. I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.
Adrian Gonzalez
#79. Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth
#80. The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground.
Andrew Stevenson
#81. I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
Mark Teixeira
#82. The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Jose Canseco
#83. It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.
Casey Stengel
#84. I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.
Todd Helton
#85. 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
#86. I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.
Hank Aaron
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Casey Stengel
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel
#94. My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
Sammy Sosa
#95. Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth
#96. When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
Ryne Sandberg
#97. At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
Frank Thomas
#98. I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
Bobby Thomson
#99. This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
Mickey Mantle
#100. The power numbers are nice, but I'm most pleased that I've been consistent. Home runs come from having a consistent approach .
Ian Kinsler
