Vernon Wells Quotes

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it's information.

Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.

You have to have a great fielder at shortstop, and you've got to have a guy that has good range and good hands in center field.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

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 player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

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.

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.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

Baseball began early for me. When I was 5, my father took two Little League bats and put them on a lathe. He whittled them down and sanded the bats so they were the proper size for my brother and me. He began by throwing tennis balls to us. Eventually, we practiced hitting and fielding at a field near our house.

It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it goes on. It's a beautiful game that's greatly competitive between bat and ball.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

I think everyone's favorite part of the game is hitting - especially when you're having success - considering it's so hard to do.