Hitting Home Runs Quotes

• You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.

  Roger Maris

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

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• I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Running, Home, Four

  "Morning Briefing: Babe Ruth Was Not a Superstitious Man, Except on 714 Occasions". The Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1982.

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• How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Running, Home

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  Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

  Roberto Clemente

  Running, Team, Home

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• I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Swings, Missing

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

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• 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.

  Hank Aaron

  Running, Home, Kids

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

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• Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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• No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) 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.

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Home, Special

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• I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Running, Home

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• Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

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• I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

  Bill Dickey

  Running, Home, Play

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

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• Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

  Casey Stengel

  Running, Home, Yankees

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• You can make something big when young that will carry you through life. Look at all the big startups like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. They were all started by very young people who stumbled on something of unseen value. You'll know it when you hit a home run.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Home, Apples

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• The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Home, Fishing

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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

  Yogi Berra

  Running, Home, Swings

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Running, Mistake

  "Hammerin' back at racism". www.espn.com.

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• I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

  Willie Stargell

  Running, Home, Thinking

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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 mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'

  Kristen Stewart

  Running, Mean, Home

  "Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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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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• The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

  Billy Corgan

  Running, Business, Home

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