Home Run Quotes
135 quotes by 109 authors
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
— Hank Aaron
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For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in…
— Bill Bryson
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed…
— Hank Aaron
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If…
— Hank Aaron
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Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
— Walter Johnson
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to…
— Ken Harrelson
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You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.
— Roger Maris
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I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages,…
— Harmon Killebrew
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I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off…
— Hank Aaron
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If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
— Babe Ruth
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The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit…
— Ken Rosenthal
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Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's…
— Conan O'Brien
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When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
— Mickey Mantle
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Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do…
— Roger Maris
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The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.
— Stanley Druckenmiller
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The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to…
— Stanley Druckenmiller
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George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has…
— Robert Kroetsch
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run
— Babe Ruth
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run
— Barry Bonds
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I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.
— Ryan Braun
Who Wrote These Home Run Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 135 Home Run Quotes, led by these top contributors: