Top 33 Hitters Quotes

The heavyweight division is always very intriguing. These are the heavy hitters, you know? Every time when you do a mistake, it’s the end of the fight. So you have to be careful all the time, and this is what makes this division so intriguing, so exciting for the fans.

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn’t get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

With a runner at second base with nobody out, you’re trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.

When you don’t have one that you throw for strikes – they are good hitters – they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one’s not working, I’ve got three others. It makes the game totally different.

I’ve witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

With heavy hitters like ‘Who’s in Control’ and ‘Stunde Null,’ it’s easy to imagine British Sea Power wailing on Flying Vs in front of a packed arena of screaming fans.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it’s over.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can’t go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.

As far as the NWA tag-team wrestling of the ’80s – and I know you’re talking some heavy hitters there – the first thing people will always say is The Midnight and Rock ‘N’ Roll Express. We invented things as we went along that people had never seen. It was always different. And it was always good.

Sometimes I have to try to remind myself that I don’t try to strike out hitters.

The great hitters use the whole field, and that’s a goal of mine.

The best hitters can do everything.

I know my Dad’s a National League guy. I’m an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He’s like well we got better pitchers. I’m like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.

If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don’t have to do as much as we think we have to.

Any time first time out, you just want to make sure you can get hitters out again.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it’s up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That’s the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.

Augusta is a very unique golf course. It’s a long hitters’ course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it’s incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.

A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.

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

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can’t figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.

Major league hitters have more power. But Japanese hitters are very good at making contact. I don’t like either.

To be on set with Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie is just fantastic. But during ‘Homeland,’ I was on set with Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, so I’m used to working with big hitters.

I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective.

Spin rate itself doesn’t make a pitch harder to hit. It just makes it further from what the hitters are used to seeing. It takes a pitch further away from average.

I’ve always been fastball-curveball and really relied on that pitch, and when it goes away, it just totally changes how you attack hitters.

You just learn every year, being around the game long enough, facing hitters more and more.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I’d get four. You have to protect your hitters.

If I’d been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we’d have had a special team, most wouldn’t stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

When you feel like you’re going to have a low-scoring game, why not have one of your better hitters have a chance? All of a sudden you’re in the ninth inning and you have one of your best hitters on deck that doesn’t get up. I always think about that.