Home run Quotes · Page 5

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

— Cris Collinsworth

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was…

— Mickey Mantle

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

— Torii Hunter

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

— Mickey Mantle

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

— Joyce Meyer

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

— Bill Dickey

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

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

— John Guare

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in…

— Alex Gibney

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home…

— David Ortiz

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think…

— Bobby Knight

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of…

— Vin Scully

In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M…

— Mickey Mantle

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run…

— Tony Oliva

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home…

— Ilona Andrews

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs,…

— Barack Obama

To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or…

— Frank Deford

“Then I felt arms come around me and pull me close. “Hey,” Jason said, kissing my neck before parking his chin on…

— Rachel Hawthorne

We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs...…

— Ned Yost

If it comes it comes. But you can't look for a finish. If you look for a home run ball you'll never…

— Benson Henderson

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss…

— Ray Dalio

I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and…

— Harmon Killebrew

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was…

— Warren Spahn

I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as…

— David Ortiz

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

— Earl Weaver

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

— Morgan Ensberg

Something I get, I got to get home. Run, run, run, run, run, run running home. Where is my home...

— Korn

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

— Yogi Berra

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

— Andre Ethier

You don't hope to go up and hit a single. You go up and hope to hit a home run.

— Michael Chandler

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

— Ronald Acuna Jr

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

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

— Carlos Beltran

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

— Juan Soto

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

— Mickey Mantle

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

I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

— David Justice

“Playing baseball for pay - home run Teaching kids to play the game - priceless”

— Jack Perconte

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

— Jeff Arnold