Marco Scutaro Quotes

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

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

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

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

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.

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

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

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

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.

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

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

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.

Our hitting coaches have done a great job of understanding when I don't look right at the plate and getting me back on track.

How you think, and how much you think, is so important in golf. There are countless things we can work on and think about in the swing, but when it's time to play in competition, you don't want to think too many thoughts.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

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.

I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.

Sometimes, I arrive at races more energetic and clear-minded than ever, and then I have a terrible race. And the opposite is also true.