Earl Weaver Quotes

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.

You always dream about your first homer and your 100th.

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

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?

Baseball is a game of inches.

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'

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.

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

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.

That white man not only stood up at the plate but knocked the ball over the fence.

I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.

The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.