Vernon Wells Quotes

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

I think I have a natural hitting ability.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

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.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

Working my way through different formats has not changed my batting approach much.

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.

I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.