To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. — Steve Hovley Copy Share Image
Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the… — Don Drysdale Copy Share Image
I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee! — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. — Joe Schultz Copy Share Image
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times.… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha,… — Ron Shelton Copy Share Image
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by… — Reggie Jackson Copy Share Image
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. — Charley Lau Copy Share Image
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer… — Steve Busby Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you,… — Roy Campanella Copy Share Image
I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy… — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart. — Tim McCarver Copy Share Image
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