Christian Yelich Quotes

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

I wouldn't describe myself as a home run hitter. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.

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.

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

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

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

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

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.

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

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

Hitting is not an exact science.

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.

I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.

I try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

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

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.

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.

As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

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.

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