Alex Bregman Quotes

I always talk about it like I'm a hitter first and if I'm doing things right and my body's in the right place, I drive the baseball.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

I am happy with the way I hit the ball. There is a certain element of power into it but not completely. It is like 80 per cent timing and 20 per cent power. Why do I need power hitting when I can clear the ropes with timing?

I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.

Yeah, if I see a ball in the zone then I'll try to put a good swing on it.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.

I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.

Hitting is not an exact science.

You know when you've hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes a reassuringly solid sound when I connect properly. The ball pings off the middle.

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.

People always ask me how I can hit the ball so far, and I say, 'I just swing.' It's the coaches who first told me I had good bat speed. I was just swinging, and I guess it was fast. I'm pretty fast at everything.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

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

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

You can't see the bat hit the ball if you're generating any bat speed. If you're just laying the bat through the strike zone, sure, maybe.

I've always loved hitting, and even as a kid, I always hit.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.