In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away
I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.
Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.
There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.
The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it's always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get on base and set the tone.
It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.
I know I can hit. My defense has been there. I'm trying to show what I can do on the basepaths as well.
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.
Altuve is just so good at that. He can decide halfway to the plate where he's going to place the ball. I've never seen that kind of talent before in my life, and I don't know if I'll ever see it again.
Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
I think I'm a very powerful player; I can hit good groundstrokes.
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.
Baseball's rich in wonderful statistics, but it's hard to find one more beautiful than Stan Musial's hitting record. He didn't care where he was, he just hit.
The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.
If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.
Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.
In the nets, Joe Root hits the most sixes. He tries to take us down all the time. I think everyone is capable of hitting big sixes and I think I'm the best of all of them. But Jos is the one guy that everyone knows is out front. Jos is power with timing.
I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.
If I were catching blindfolded, I'd always know when it was Foxx who connected. He hit the ball harder than anyone else.
I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.
