Gerrit Cole Quotes

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

I have natural talent when it comes to batting.

I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

Mike Trout is unbelievable. He's one of the best players in baseball right now, if not the best.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

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.

If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the center of the action, the cat and mouse battle with the batter on every pitch. You had to develop grit.

You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

Baseball is a game of geometry, while football is a game of explosive emotion. Every emotion known to mankind is in that 60 minutes - pride, pain, dedication, satisfaction, fear.

When I see some of the pitches which my father played on, I think that it must have been a different game.

If someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

John certainly gives it a good hit, doesn't he? My Sunday best is a Wednesday afternoon compared to him.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."