Edd Roush Quotes

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

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 don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

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

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.

If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.