Robert Smith Quotes

One of the things you do in a baseball game is scream at the umpire in the hope that the next call will go your way.

The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.

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

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.

He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.

I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

To tell the truth, I never think about a homer. I'm just thinking of the situation and what I've got to do when I go to the plate.

Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

I didn't even realize it was a grand slam (number thirty-one) because I was mentally preparing myself for Andy Benes because he struck me out the first time.

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.