Home Run Quotes - Page 3

• Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.

  Roy Campanella

  Sports, Baseball, Football

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• There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

  Alvin Dark

  Running, Home, Moon

  "Pimping for the designated fan" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.

  Marshall Faulk

  Running, Home, Rays

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• 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, Phones

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• The real debate isn't over National League MVP, but over which of Barry Bonds' seasons should be considered his finest. There's 2001, when he hit his record seventy-three home runs. There's 2002, when he hit .370 and won his first batting title. And now there's 2004, when the San Francisco Giants slugger is preparing to shatter his season record for on-base percentage, hitting for nearly as high an average as Ichiro and missing fewer pitches than ever.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Running, Real, Home

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• No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.

  Nellie Fox

  Running, Home, Player

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• It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his promise never to leave Ethan again. All parents leave their children one day.

  Michael Chabon

  Summer, Baseball, Running

  Michael Chabon (2002). “Summerland”, Miramax

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• Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

  Ned Vizzini

  Basketball, Running, Real

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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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• David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Running, Home, Watches

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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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• Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Home, Yesterday

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• If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

  Babe Ruth

  Inspirational, Running, Home

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• Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

  Roger Maris

  Running, Home, Records

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• The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Running, Home, Long

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• The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade, you have to go for the jugular. It takes courage to be a pig.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Running, Home, Pigs

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• George Bowering doesn’t play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun.

  Robert Kroetsch

  Baseball, Running, Fun

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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• The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You won't find many who are consistent enough to copy, and there are enough variations in approach that it's obvious that it's not like hitting home runs or swinging a golf club. There isn't a standard approach, there's only what works for you (and what doesn't).

  Seth Godin

  Running, Home, Writing

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• « He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style. 

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Home, Rocks

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• Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Running, Song, Home

  Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

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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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• Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

  Barry Lyga

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.410, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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