Robinson Cano Quotes

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

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

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

I like to score goals, as, back in the day, I was used to scoring goals.

I either do really well in spring training, or I suck. I either hit .350 or .150.

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

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have success on the baseball field and the football field.

I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. No one gave that to me. I earned every single thing.

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it.

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

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.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.