It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in…

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

It took me 17 years to get threethousand hits in baseball.It took me one afternoon on a golf course

— Hank Aaron

“It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” —George Herman “Babe” Ruth”

— Anonymous

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

— Katherine Dunn

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

— Adrien Brody

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone…

— Pete Rose

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really…

— Reggie Jackson

I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

— Pete Rose

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

— Jerry Coleman

Three thousand hits is something that should stand for itself.

— Rod Carew

“The right thing to do is so easy to see when you're seventeen years old and don't have to make any big decisions. When…

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

“I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything…

— Laura Wright

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she…

— Lauren Oliver

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

— Robert Reed