Home Run Quotes - Page 5

• Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.

  Bob Uecker

  Running, Home, League

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• Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

  Jason Giambi

  Baseball, Running, Home

  "Yankees' Giambi Tells Major League Baseball to Apologize for Drug Problems". www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2007.

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• When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

  Sammy Sosa

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

  Derek Jeter

  Running, Home, Men

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• I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Running, Dad, Children

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• [On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

  Warren Spahn

  Running, Zero, Home

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after I hit 29 home runs and drove in 92 RBIs, and I think those (steroid-aided home run hitters) are partly to blame.

  Frank Thomas

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Running, Home, Accomplishment

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• If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  Running, Home, Guy

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• You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

  Sterling W Sill

  Life, Running, Kings

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• Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

  Willie Stargell

  Running, Hero, Home

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• I spent twenty-two seasons playing professional baseball. Naturally, success in that field is measured by batting averages, number of home runs and RBIs, fielding averages, ERAs and other statistics. Fame, notoriety and the bright lights fade quickly. To me, true success in life would be to develop both physically and spiritually to our fullest and to endure to the end!

  Harmon Killebrew

  Life, Success, Baseball

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• The mark of a good hitter is someone who hits the ball hard, often. And if you run into a few home runs, that's fine.

  Lance Berkman

  Running, Home, Balls

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• I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.

  Lance Berkman

  Running, Home, Guy

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• [W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I was pretty sure that whatever was buzzing against my thigh was not normal. For one thing, it was ringing. Ben dragged his mouth away from mine and mumbled a curse that was a little shocking and kind of hot. "Ignore it," he said. That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Running, Home, Kissing

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• I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

  Justin Morneau

  Running, Home, Goal

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• I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game.

  Todd Helton

  Running, Home, Practice

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• If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

  Morgan Ensberg

  Running, Home, Bats

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• That home run ties it up, 1-0.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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• Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

  Irving Stone

  Running, Reading, Home

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• Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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• That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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• For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Running, Home

  "Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2013.

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• To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else.

  Frank Deford

  Sports, Running, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always been a streaky hitter. For the most part, when my home runs come, they come in bunches.

  Adrian Gonzalez

  Running, Home, Bunch

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