Zitat des Tages von Hank Aaron:
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
I tell young people - including my granddaughter - there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
