Rogers Hornsby Quotes

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

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 someone throws you a good slider, you're not going to hit it. You've got to always hunt those ones that kind of pop up or hang thigh-high or up.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

You can't go up there trying to get hits. You can just go up there trying to put together at-bats and square the baseball up.

Hitting is not an exact science.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

My batting mentality is to see the ball and hit it. I don't know what bowlers see while batting.