Hitting Quotes
532 quotes by 459 authors
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Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.
— Ally Carter
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Then why are you crying?†“Because of you!†I beat my fists on his chest. “Because I love you, and I don’t know what to…
— Richelle Mead
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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. You figure a…
— Mickey Mantle
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The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
— Stan Musial
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I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different…
— Chili Davis
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I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to…
— Alexis Arquette
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I always could hit, but fielding I had to work at. I took as much pride in fielding as hitting. I became a complete ballplayer.…
— George Kell
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and just focusing on training.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
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I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting…
— Arnold Palmer
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I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.
— Johnny Evers
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Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
— Edd Roush
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than…
— Edd Roush
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Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you…
— Mariella Frostrup
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Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive…
— Harmon Killebrew
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When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.
— Neneh Cherry
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town…
— Rabbit Maranville
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The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I…
— Zack Wheat
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in…
— Harbhajan Singh
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I always loved hitting a low fade to a back-right pin with the wind howling from the right. Not many guys could get it close…
— Lee Trevino
Who Wrote These Hitting Quotes
459 authors contributed a total of 532 Hitting Quotes, led by these top contributors: