Yoenis Cespedes Quotes

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

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

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.

I know about winning batting titles.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

You always expect to hit for more power.

Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.

We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

I know that my job is to score runs, and I will continue to do that.

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

I care about runs scored and RBIs. Those are the most important things for me.

I'm just trying to score as many runs as I can each time. The more I can make over a hundred, the better.

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

You're not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.