Quotes on Baseball Hitting

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

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

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.