Frank Thomas Quotes

I don't hit home runs in BP.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

I don't really look at stats or whatever. You see them on the big screen. But other than that, I don't pay too much attention to it. I did know about my dad's home run total. Other than that, I don't like to know. It's pointless. Whether you know or don't know, you don't want to think about it. You just want to go out and play the game.

I'm 5-foot-9, 180 pounds. I don't have much else to work with, so I just try to use my bat speed and get the most out of what I've got.

You can't take a single day for granted in the National Football League. Every single day, you need to earn your spot on the roster.

Sometimes thinking about the Olympics makes me a little nervous.

Every single day, my parents fed me balls. Eventually it turned into having a coach, and then it went to being at an academy. You know, it worked out pretty well.

In international cricket you have to thrive on the big stage, you have to deal with the media and the pressure.

I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.

When you have to play football, you do it in the knowledge that there's a lot riding on the match, be it money, your team-mates, or the feelings of the fans.

It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I just come here and try to do my thing. Do my work and help the team to win.

I'm always trying to win my place back in the national team.

I don't fear hostile atmospheres. In fact, that added pressure serves as an incentive for me to give my very best performance on the pitch.

Once you get to the tournament, it's like, win or go home.

I don't want to get dunked on too much, and I want to make it to the playoffs.

I love to talk about hitting. It's a passion of mine.

We have to play our football.

There's always pressure on people's shoulders when it comes to Man United, and it's how you deal with the pressure.

To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

I want to hit the ball and I want to get at-bats. The results really dont matter to me.