Keyword: Hitting

Slumps are like a soft bed; they're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Slump, I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He could hit better with a broken arm than we could with two good arms.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

That boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball; unfortunately, neither of them work.

professional baseball coach

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

American baseball player

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Singles hitters drive Fords, home run hitters drive Cadillacs.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.

professional baseball player

Well, there goes our 26-game hitting streak.

baseball manager

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

It's easy to stay in the majors for seven and a half years when you hit .300; but when you hit .216 like me, it's really an accomplishment.

professional baseball player

The only thing Earl [Weaver] knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

American baseball pitcher

If a guy is a good fastball hitter, does that mean I should throw him a bad fastball?

professional baseball player

Look at him (Bobby Richardson) – he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew, he doesn’t stay out late, and he still can’t hit .250.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

So I'm ugly; I never saw anyone hit with his face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.


(1918 – 2002) American baseball player

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

American baseball player

He's the only guy I know who can go 4 for 3.

American baseball player

When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object; I knew immediately what it was… that was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player