There has always been a saying in baseball that you can’t make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.
I’ve found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.
Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!
No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it’s physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.
I’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.”
If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
If I could run like Mantle I’d hit .400 every year!
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that’s the real secret.
People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.
By the time you know what to do, you’re too old to do it.
I don’t want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They’re both great hitters, but they’re batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
Think. Don’t just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who’s up next. Think.
Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
Baseball is 50% from the neck up.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.