Harmon Killebrew Quotes

What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.

I know about winning batting titles.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

You're not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I know that my job is to score runs, and I will continue to do that.

I care about runs scored and RBIs. Those are the most important things for me.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

The old saying was, 'Boggs never drives in any runs.' I played in 155 games. I led off. That's 155 plate appearance where I come up with nobody on.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

I'd played more right than left in Double-A, I think.

You have so many at-bats, and obviously if you go three out of 10, you're doing well for the season, so you try to forget every at-bat you have that's not a good one and try to stay positive.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

Mike Trout. Jose Ramírez. Mookie Betts. All these guys walk, and they swing at strikes.

I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.