Baseball Quote by Barry Bearak

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

— Yogi Berra

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

— Michael Lewis

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

— Mickey Rivers

Heck, anyone would take a 70 mph hit vs. a 110 mph out, but that's when you just try to go back to the…

— Kyle Schwarber

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting…

— Joe Namath

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of…

— Leonard Koppett

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

— Hank Aaron

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is…

— Stan Musial

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

— Jimmy Cannon

Guys that are striking out 200 times, like Joey Gallo - in 1990 he would have hit 75 home runs every year because he's…

— Trevor Bauer

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

— Dizzy Dean