Kyler Murray Quotes

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

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.

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.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

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

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

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.

Hitting is not an exact science.

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

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.

If you hit a routine fly ball in the big leagues, you're out every time. If you hit a ground ball, you're probably out a lot of the time as well. But there's a happy medium in there, a way to swing where your misses can still lead to successes.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

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

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.

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

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

If a pitcher makes a mistake inside, I'm going to hit it.