Aaron Judge Quotes

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

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

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

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

I have to go with the approach I had in Triple-A. I need to take a lot of those fastballs I am seeing to left field. Also must gear up for the changeup and take them up the middle.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.

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

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

For me, the strike zone has always been, If it's something I can drive, it's most likely a strike. I feel like if it's a ball I really can't do much with, it's most likely a ball. So that's just always been my approach.

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

I'm pretty close to Miguel Cabrera. We are such different hitters, but at the same time, we're pretty close because we both like to hit the ball middle-away.

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.

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.

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.

When you go up there in the batter's box, you're engaged to hit. It's the same thing with baserunning.

Hitting is not an exact science.