Line Drive Quotes

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

I hit balls hard on the ground, and sometimes they are double plays. Other times, you hit it hard, and it's right through a hole.

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

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.

That's the hardest play in baseball, is a line drive right at you.

One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.'

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.

To me, hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air.

I know from watching other players that they have great games by getting to the line and getting to the rim.

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

A line drive to the warning track on one pitch, I'll take that over a strikeout any day.

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

Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.

In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.

I see myself as a line-drive hitter first.

In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.