Ryne Sandberg Quotes

I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.

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

Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.

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

You figure when you match up against other clubs and you go through the lineup one through nine, you get to the nine hole, if you can put together an at-bat or you can see some different pitches that helps give you an advantage competitively, it can make your lineup stronger.

However it is I get on base, or whatever happens, happens.

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

My job has usually been to get on base so others can drive me in.

I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.

You always expect to hit for more power.

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

Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

I'm just trying to score as many runs as I can each time. The more I can make over a hundred, the better.

In the postseason, as many ways as you can get on base as possible is big.

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

Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.

Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.

There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.

I want to get on base every single time I get up there. Whether it's a walk or a base hit, I really don't care how I want to get on base. I just want to be on.

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

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

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

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