Home Runs Quotes
61 quotes by 47 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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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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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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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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I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.
— Ryan Braun
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I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt…
— Ryan Braun
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When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
— Ryne Sandberg
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He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including…
— Sparky Anderson
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If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.
— Carl Yastrzemski
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I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams,…
— Carl Yastrzemski
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I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after…
— Frank Thomas
Who Wrote These Home Runs Quotes
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