Twinkle Khanna Quotes

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

I am the best in baseball.

I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

I know about winning batting titles.

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Ask any batsman what gives him maximum satisfaction. It's scoring runs, whether it's Ranji Trophy or any form of the game. When you get back to your room, knowing that you have scored a hundred, it gives you satisfaction.

Dai Greene will be our greatest-ever Welsh athlete.

I like to watch the best in every sport, so definitely like Tom Brady or Tiger Woods, his comeback story, or even Usain Bolt. I look up to those guys just because they're great.

From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.