Top 40 Home Runs Quotes

It was in 1942 and I flew from St. Louis to Mexico City. I had just gotten married and we were on our honeymoon. I hit .397 and led the Mexican League with 20 home runs and was named the MVP of the league. It’s when I realized I could compete with anyone at any level.

When you’re in the middle of a pennant race, you can’t go up there thinking about home runs.

The questions don’t happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don’t think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

I’d get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little ‘wood shots’ down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn’t count the number of long outs!

Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that’s why they never hit any home runs. It’s a safety issue.

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn’t accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

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

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

I don’t care about the home runs as much as just being consistent and RBIs.

I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

Once I found my swing, I feel like if I put a good swing on it, I feel like it’s got a good chance to go wherever – left, right, center – it doesn’t matter. But I’m not just out here going to swing for home runs of anything. I’m just trying to put a good swing on the baseball.

Obviously, being a first baseman, you’re kind of expected to hit some home runs. Obviously, that goes into your head; it gets into my head a little bit.

When did it – When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

There’s been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He’s a good lefty hitter; he’s hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you’re more likely to have a better outcome.

I’m sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

I heard Tony Bennett say that when you’re a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it’s very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.

I have the speed. People said, ‘Just hit the ball on the ground, slap the ball, just get on base.’ But I wanted to be able to hit home runs. I wanted to be able to bunt, steal bases, play defense.

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

Guys that are striking out 200 times, like Joey Gallo – in 1990 he would have hit 75 home runs every year because he’s facing guys with an average velocity of 90 miles an hour, good command and O.K. breaking balls.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

It was everyone going up there to swing for the fences, because the home runs were what would get them on ‘SportsCenter.’ That really changed the mindset of the players.

I don’t try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.

Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me.

If you give a guy 1,000 opportunities and he hits 30 home runs or 500 opportunities and he hits 30 home runs, it’s not the same thing. I know. This is what I do for a living, and I know who is better at what I do.

My situation is different from Mark’s. I’m not looking for home runs, I’m looking for the playoffs.

If you had told me when I was a kid that I’d have 100 home runs in the Major Leagues one day, it’d probably put a pretty good smile on my face.

I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don’t show up in the box score.

My mom’s always asking me for hits and stolen bases and home runs and different things on Mother’s Day and her birthday.

All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

We all know that players will hit a few more home runs than usual in some years and a few less in others. But the mathematics of chance also predicts that some years they’ll hit a lot more, and some years a lot less.

In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there’s the least competition.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.