Torii Hunter Quotes

I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

We are all really working hard to improve our batting.

I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.

I'm ready to come out and show people I'm able to play defense.

If I'm ready to play, I want to play.

I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.

I just go out there and throw. That's what I've done my whole life.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

I'm a player, the coaches coach.

I think the more you practise batting, follow the drills, the better you get.

Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.

I believe that I'm one of the best defenders in this league; I take a lot of pride in that.

If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

Whenever I get the opportunity to play I do the best I can.

I need to show what a good player I can be.

The more time you play, the more confidence you get. The more confidence you get, you get a little success.

I just play my game. I know if I play well I will win.

Coach K was fine with the way I played defense.

You have to win on the ball.

I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.