Contact Hitting Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.

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.

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.

That's one thing I learned from watching great hitters hit. A lot of hitters, they're ready to hit from pitch one.

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.

Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.

I think I have a natural hitting ability.

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 used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there.

I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

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

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.

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.

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.