Freddie Freeman Quotes

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

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

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

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

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

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

You always expect to hit for more power.

I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.

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.

Hitting is not an exact science.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

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.

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.

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

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.

When I was drafted, I didn't know any better. I didn't think I had to hit for power.

I have natural talent when it comes to batting.

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.

The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.

When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that's a goal of mine.

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