Home Run Quotes - Page 8

• Out of ten swings at the bat, you get maybe seven strikeouts, two base hits, and if you are lucky, one home run. The base hits and the home runs pay for all the strikeouts

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Home, Swings

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• If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

  Mark Cuban

  Mom, Running, Brother

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• If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

  Bill Hybels

  Running, Home, Fighting

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• Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs

  Ralph Kiner

  Running, Home, Cadillacs

  Ralph Kiner, Joe Gergen (1987). “Kiner's korner: at bat and on the air-- my 40 years in baseball”, Arbor House Pub Co

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• I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way.

  David Justice

  Broken Heart, Running, Home

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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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• 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.

  George Brett

  Running, Home, Names

  Interview with C. Trent Rosecrans, www.cbssports.com. July 8, 2012.

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• The career 500th home run for Michael Jack Schmidt!

  Harry Kalas

  Running, Home, Careers

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• 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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• Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Home

  "Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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• The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

  Chili Davis

  Running, Home, Games

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• Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

  James Lee Burke

  Running, Home, Writing

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• The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

  Amos Otis

  Running, Home, Balls

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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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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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• Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez on his 660th home run, milestones in baseball are meant to be broken and I wish him continued success throughout his career.

  Willie Mays

  Success, Baseball, Running

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• I was stealing all the bases, and when you had to go to arbitration they said, 'You know, only the big boys make the money.' So I got to try and figure out how to hit a home run, too.

  Rickey Henderson

  Running, Home, Boys

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• Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Running

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• The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.

  Neil Young

  Music, Running, Taken

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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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• I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

  Bill Lee

  Running, Home, Play

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• And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?

  Mel Allen

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• I've know Jeezy before he was Jeezy. I've been down with Cash Money from back in the day. So these are real relationships. I'm there for them and they're there for me. And they know if I'm going to make a record with somebody, I'm gonna hit a home run.

  DJ Khaled

  Running, Real, Home

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