Top 35 Home Run Quotes

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.

I have these brownies that I make that are just a home run with my family. I make them with almond butter, prune puree, walnuts, cocoa powder and whole-wheat flour, and I like them because they’re delicious, but they’re also guilt-free.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

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

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth’s home run record? No.

At the Home Run Derby, you’re expected to hit home runs. You’re up there trying to hit home runs.

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.

When we went home every winter, they warned us not to lift heavy weights because they didn’t want us to lose flexibility. They wanted us to be baseball players, not only home run hitters.

It might be, it could be… it is! A home run!

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

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron’s home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

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

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

I watched the guy that hits a home run, and he comes across the plate and he points skyward, like thanking for the help from the Almighty to hit the home run. And as he does that, I say to myself, ‘God screwed the pitcher.’ And I don’t know how else you look at it.

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, ‘We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.’

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

These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

Hard comedy goes for the fences. It’s also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don’t hit a home run, you might strike out. It’s either a belly laugh or it’s no go and no show.

When I was a kid, watching All-Star week on TV, the Home Run Derby was a highlight for me.

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.

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.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

You don’t hope to go up and hit a single. You go up and hope to hit a home run.

I wouldn’t describe myself as a home run hitter. I’m just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.

When you’re going into a game, you’re not expected to hit a home run every game. You’re just doing everything proper with proper swings.

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

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.

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it’s Barry Bonds.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that’s a home run.

I watch the Dodgers every night – no reading anymore – and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we’ve played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It’s not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it’s trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

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?

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.

A Home Run Derby is fun. It’s just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, there’s a little more pressure when they pull that cage back, but if you practice properly, it shouldn’t affect the second half of your season at all.

Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.