Kirk Gibson Quotes

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

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.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

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

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

I want to strike out less than 20 times.

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.

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.

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

It's a great feeling to know that I've played the best golf throughout the season of any of the guys for the second time in three years, it's really nice.

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

We're the greatest athletes in the world without a doubt.