Athlete Quote by Mickey Mantle

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

— Norm Cash

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

— Mickey Mantle

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll…

— Garrett Atkins

I'll be the first one to admit I had some bad at-bats. But I've had periods where I've struck out four times and then…

— Cody Bellinger

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

— Hank Aaron

No, I've never played baseball in my life.

— Jay Hernandez

It took me 17 years to get threethousand hits in baseball.It took me one afternoon on a golf course

— Hank Aaron

It doesn't happen very often that you get eight at-bats in a game.

— Brandon Crawford

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat,

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told…

— Eric Davis

At cricket, I was mainly a bowler and tried to bat. I hit the odd four or six and then got out! In athletics,…

— Chris Smalling