Aaron Judge Quotes

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

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.

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

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

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.

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 try to think shorter swing with two strikes. That's how I was raised and taught the game of baseball.

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

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

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

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.

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

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

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

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

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

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

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.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

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.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

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