Home run Quotes · Page 5

I'm always expected to hit a home run; but, sometimes you can win the game with a bunt.

— Jeff Arnold

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

— Carlos Beltran

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

You always want to hit a home run and see how far the ball lands and everything.

— Juan Soto

I really enjoyed being able to get my first home run in the big leagues.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

— Juliana Hatfield

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

— Jerry Coleman

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

— Mickey Mantle

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to…

— Bobby Thomson

He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run…

— Warren Spahn

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring…

— Irving Stone

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel…

— Mark Teixeira

It's always nice to hit a home run, no matter if it's your first or your last. It's always fun, especially for…

— Trea Turner

The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade,…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys…

— Rickey Henderson

I didn't even finish college, and I can tell you if you hit a ball 95 miles-per-hour that's over 25 degrees, it's…

— Ryan Zimmerman

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory:…

— Jane Leavy

A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it…

— Frank Thomas

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…

— Jason Giambi

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over…

— Jay Leno

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch.…

— Richard Corliss

Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they…

— Neil Young

An incredible advertising career is not about creating an incredibly amazing ad, it's about making an incredible amazing ad every single day…

— Lee Clow

Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

— Marshall Faulk

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

— Billy Corgan

The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home…

— Lance Berkman

“Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.”

— Mary Karr

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat…

— Bill Mazeroski

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

— Brooks Koepka

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it's Barry Bonds.

— Joe Buck

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

— Frank Thomas

I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as…

— Amos Otis

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

— Mark Teixeira

“We each have a home run waiting for us, but we have to keep swinging the bat.”

— Joyce Meyer

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

— Mickey Mantle

To hit a home run in any part of the game is an amazing feeling. To me, that's the best part of…

— Ronald Acuna Jr

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

— Bill Dickey

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

— Willie Stargell

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

— Jerry Coleman