Quotes About Rogers Hornsby

#1. Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Walter Johnson

#2. (Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ...

Casey Stengel

#3. I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.

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#4. Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

George Hamilton

#5. I've never been a yes man.

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#6. It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

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#7. I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

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#8. Baseball is my life, the only thing I know and can talk about. My only interest.

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#9. Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Francis Bacon

#10. He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney.

James Joyce

#11. I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

#12. I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.

Rogers Hornsby

#13. I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good.

Rogers Hornsby

#14. When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

Facundo Pieres

#15. Players who stand flat footed and swing with their arms are golfers, not hitters.

Rogers Hornsby

#16. The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

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#17. The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

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#18. People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

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#19. A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.

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#20. Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

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#21. The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

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#22. 'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Meghan O'Rourke

#23. To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Rogers Hornsby

#24. I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

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#25. The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise.

Rick Riordan

#26. When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

Rogers Hornsby

#27. The cockroach
who is dying
and the woman
who is blind
agree
not to notice
each other's shame.

Audre Lorde

#28. I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Rogers Hornsby

#29. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Dorothea Brande

#30. I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'

Ansel Elgort

#31. Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

Rogers Hornsby