Fielding Percentage Quotes

Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

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

Mike Trout. Jose Ramírez. Mookie Betts. All these guys walk, and they swing at strikes.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Third ain't so bad if nothin' is hit to you.

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I think I'm a guy who loves to play defense. I have a great time in the outfield. I think it's fun robbing guys on hits - there are plenty of times you're gonna be robbed as a hitter.

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

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

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

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

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.