Hitting Performance Quotes

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.

I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

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

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

I never talked about launch angle, never mentioned launch angle. I know there's a lot of people probably hoping that I would say that because that's just the trend in baseball.

Everybody has bad at-bats -- except McCutchen.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

Having a relentless lineup full of professional hitters works on so many levels. It works in terms of pure baseball reasons: if you get on base, you're going to score runs.

I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

One of the first benchmarks in a season are far as at-bats is 100.

When I look at my numbers, I don't give up a lot of hits.

Carlos Ruiz hascaught me a lot of bullpens, and he's really worked since he got here to try to learn the pitchers. You know, he's a true - he's a guy you want on your team, no doubt. He works tirelessly at what he can, and you know, got the huge hit for us today.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.