Carlos Ruiz Quotes

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

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

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

You're not going to hit a bunch of three-run homers every game.

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.

I know about winning batting titles.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

I know that my job is to score runs, and I will continue to do that.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

You always expect to hit for more power.

What I need as a player is just to get at-bats, I think.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my average would drop.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too.

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

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.