Home runs Quotes · Page 2

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

— Ken Griffey Jr

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

— Mike Schmidt

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

— Roger Maris

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that…

— Curtis Granderson

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

— Carlos Ruiz

As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.

— Derrek Lee

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

— Sammy Sosa

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

— Mark Teixeira

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the…

— Mark McGwire

Brandon McCaw has scored 865,456,876,345 home runs in baseball and he has 754,865,345,987 championships in baseball. Go to his website on BASEBALL.

— Brandon McCaw

I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that…

— Ken Griffey Jr

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

— Dave Winfield

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as…

— Tony La Russa

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's…

— Kathy Baker

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The…

— Craig Biggio

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans…

— Hank Aaron

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

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or…

— Frank Robinson

I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just…

— Prince Fielder

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a…

— Hank Aaron

To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands…

— Mark McGwire

But this is the point I want to make: When you talk about steroids and you talk about what it means to…

— Carlton Fisk

Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require…

— Ichiro Suzuki

It gives us a lot of versatility and flexibility. Looking ahead, we've got a lot of good young players coming through the…

— Tim Purpura

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

— George Herman

Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even…

— Garrett Atkins

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

— Carl Yastrzemski

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest…

— Ryne Sandberg

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

— Sammy Sosa

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

— Derek Jeter

Obviously, we can hit home runs, but there's more to hitting and there's more to winning than that.

— Nolan Arenado

As soon as you start thinking about home runs, especially with me, my approach starts going the wrong way.

— Xander Bogaerts

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

— Mark McGwire

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

— John Guare

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

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

— Andre Ethier

“You can get base hits or home runs, but you can’t get a grand slam without both.”

— Richie Norton

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

— Roberto Clemente

I don't hit bunts, I hit home runs. That's what I do, dude.

— Jeremy Stephens