Zack Greinke Quotes

I never talked about launch angle, never mentioned launch angle. I know there's a lot of people probably hoping that I would say that because that's just the trend in baseball.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

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

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.

In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

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.

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.

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.

One of the first benchmarks in a season are far as at-bats is 100.

I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.

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

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

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.

You can struggle for a little while. It's going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn't mean he's a .200 hitter.

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

The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.