Anthony Rendon Quotes

The biggest thing is, you don't hit the good sliders; you just hit the mistakes. That's what my thing has always been: Just keep hunting mistakes.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it's got a good chance to go wherever - left, right, center - it doesn't matter. But I'm not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I'm just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Everybody in the league knew I had trouble with the inside pitch. I got away with it only because the great majority of pitchers were afraid of making a mistake in that spot. The threat of power is one of the best weapons you have in the batter's box.

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.