Warren Spahn Quotes

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.

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

I'd played more right than left in Double-A, I think.

I don't go up there and try to hit home runs.

You're not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.

I don't care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I know about winning batting titles.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.