Anthony Rendon Quotes

Hitting is not an exact science.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

If they are going to nibble and try to go below the zone or off the plate a little bit, I want to try and get a pitch in the zone that I can do damage on.

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.

When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.

I grew up in an era where the perfect drive was a line drive, with quite a bit more spin.

It's not a bad ball if I can hit it.

I kept listening in the minor leagues, and even earlier than that, people would say, 'If you don't hit the fastball, you're not going to get to the big leagues.' Every game, you're going to get a fastball.

I always talk about it like I'm a hitter first and if I'm doing things right and my body's in the right place, I drive the baseball.

I want to be able to drive the ball to all fields.

You never hit a good slider or curveball; you just try to go after the mistakes.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

That's how baseball works. You put some good swings on the ball and it goes out of there.

I love to talk about hitting. It's a passion of mine.

Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don't really feel it.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.