Enos Slaughter Quotes

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

My average against hitters is pretty good.

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

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

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

He's in a rut. Gehringer goes two for five on opening day and stays that way all season.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

Just trying to keep everything in check, you know, it gives me a lot of respect for closers. You're doing that 75 times a year, so that's pretty impressive.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.