Zitat des Tages über Home Runs:
My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too.
Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
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.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.
When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.
I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!
The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.
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.
David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they'll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
It was everyone going up there to swing for the fences, because the home runs were what would get them on 'SportsCenter.' That really changed the mindset of the players.
I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.
Obviously, being a first baseman, you're kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.
In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.