Sweet Spot Quotes

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

It's about hitting the ball in the center of the club face and hitting it hard.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

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.

Yes, I hit with heavy top-spin, but when you look at the little rackets I played with, the Maxply Dunlop, you had to hit the very centre all the time. I had my share of miss-hits.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

I am happy with the way I hit the ball. There is a certain element of power into it but not completely. It is like 80 per cent timing and 20 per cent power. Why do I need power hitting when I can clear the ropes with timing?

When it comes to hitting solid drives, the secret is to swing within yourself. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's true. If you swing at 100 miles per hour and hit it on the toe, you won't hit the ball as far as you would with an 80-mph swing that catches the ball in the center of the clubface.

You know when you've hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes a reassuringly solid sound when I connect properly. The ball pings off the middle.

To me, hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

I'm a sucker for a catchy song, and dance music. That's my sweet spot.

I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate.

Stay inside the ball, put the barrel on it, and swing hard.

I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.

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.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.

In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.

Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don't really feel it.

You can roll the ball a long way with a stroke that has the force of a five-yard chip. Good rhythm and less effort are how you control the putterface and, in turn, the ball.

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.