Strike Zone Quotes

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.

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.

I live for baseball. That's how I grew up.

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.

When I started out, I wasn't a thinking bowler, but talking to seniors and coaches helped. They would always tell me that I ought to be clear about where I wanted to bowl before I ran in to bowl.

Can you believe it. That white man hit it out of the park.

You can't find a bad count to throw a curveball.

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

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

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

Baseball came before a lotta things in my life.

We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

I've always loved hitting, and even as a kid, I always hit.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

I could hit the damn ball. No matter who was throwing. Or where the ball was. I left the bench swinging. I didn't get many walks.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.