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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me. Ted Williams
The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he’s timid. Don Drysdale
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution. Hank Aaron
When I wake up in the morning, I don’t think of myself as being better than anybody else. I think of myself as a good hitter. Tony Gwynn
There’s only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher. Ted Williams
I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn’t mean I’m going to get a hit every game, but that’s one of the reasons I’ve come a long way as a hitter. Mark McGwire
People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn’t suit me, because I’m a long hitter, I’m a bomber. Gary Woodland
I’m a line-drive hitter. Nolan Arenado
I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches. Tony Gwynn
I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter. Kid Nichols
We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he knows himself. Theo Epstein
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. J. D. Martinez
I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I’m rollin’! Ken Griffey Jr.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. Early Wynn
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball. Jay Mohr
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time. Albert Pujols
I’m not saying this in an egotistical way, but I think there’s value in having a good hitter behind the plate and being able to put a bat at first base as well. Buster Posey
My dad wasn’t a power hitter, and I didn’t think I’d be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game. Ken Griffey Jr.
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage. Lefty Gomez
Chris Gayle is the biggest hitter. He hits long, he hits big, he is a big dude. Wasim Akram
I’ve always said, even batting leadoff, that I want to be a dangerous hitter. Trea Turner
I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter. Carlos Ruiz
I feel so overwhelmed by the kind of double hitter of a successful book and record. I just assumed at least one of them… would hopefully stick. So it’s nice that both did so well. Michelle Zauner
I’m a good hitter for a pitcher. Clayton Kershaw
I think the biggest adjustment I’ve made before coming here was going from High A to Double A. I was going in facing pitchers who had more experience and knew how to throw all their stuff for strikes and in hitter’s counts, things like that. Andrew Benintendi
The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you’re perceived as a comic writer, there’s a real snobbery, and you can’t be serious. You’re not a big hitter. Miriam Toews
There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have. Pete Rose
I’m just a singles hitter. Manny Ramirez
While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter. Frank Deford
At the end of the day, all we’re trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he’s not strong in the strike zone. Jake Arrieta
Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League’s practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all. Mark Kurlansky
Anytime a pitcher hasn’t faced a hitter, I feel the pitcher has the advantage. The more times the hitter sees somebody, the more the advantage goes to the hitter. Clayton Kershaw
To be a good hitter you’ve got to do one thing – get a good ball to hit. Rogers Hornsby
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can’t make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game. Ted Williams
You can struggle for a little while. It’s going to happen. If a guy hits .200 for a while, it doesn’t mean he’s a .200 hitter. Jake Arrieta
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown. Lou Boudreau
I’m not a cleanup hitter. I’m just batting fourth. Ben Zobrist
I don’t like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don’t want the hitter to see that something bothers me. Jacob deGrom
I know when I get to 0-2, 1-2, when I’m ahead in the count, that I hold a distinct advantage over every single hitter. I have so many options because I don’t have to work within the strike zone anymore. Max Scherzer
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it’s all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter. Doug Harvey
I want to be an impact hitter. I want to be a guy that’s in the lineup and he’s an impact. I want people to be like, ‘Arenado’s coming up.’ Nolan Arenado
The big thing I noticed from High-A to Double-A is that when you have an advantage count as a hitter, you’re not going to get as many fastballs. Adjusting to the 2-0 changeup, that 3-1 off-speed pitch – things like that. I think my swing can stay the same; I just was getting myself out. Andrew Benintendi
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. Anthony Rizzo
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice. Casey Stengel
Guys on second, if they pick up what set of signs the catcher’s using, we’ll relay it one way or the other to the hitter. Chipper Jones
If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don’t make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner. Earl Weaver
You reach a point where you’re trying to survive. You’re just trying to put the ball in play. You’re not yourself. You’re searching for your identity as a hitter on a nightly basis. That’s just really hard. And it is not atypical at all for players to need to change their environment in order to rediscover who they are. Theo Epstein
Lower stress equals a calmer approach at the plate. Calm equals a still head, allowing us to see the ball better. Confidence and relaxation; the hitter’s Holy Grail. Gabe Kapler
Anytime you can see a hitter and face a hitter, you gain knowledge, and you gain that experience. Whether they hit a homerun off you, or you strike them out or whatever it is, it’s information. Jon Lester
The bigger the game, the better I liked it. Not that I was about to let anybody know I was excited. I approached every game the same way. One pitch, one hitter at a time. Catfish Hunter
That’s one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons. Don Yaeger
There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win. Jerry Seinfeld
When I’m out there on the mound, I’m fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to stay in the game for a long time. It’s war. I see the hitter – I think about what I want to do, but it’s a very quick process. Then I attack. It’s almost primal. Matt Harvey
I’m not scared of it. I’m not shy of it or afraid of it. It’s just funny to think of me as a three-hole hitter. Trea Turner
There’s so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you’re a natural hitter. There’s so much to think about in the field, you don’t have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. ‘How did he get me out?’ Lou Boudreau
Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody’s toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that. Andrew Benintendi
I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball. Ben Zobrist
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter. Warren Spahn
If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I’m not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I’ve got to say something to the guy. Earl Weaver
I’ve won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter. Walter Alston
I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts. Zack Wheat
I see myself as a line-drive hitter first. Cody Bellinger
I don’t like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit. Marge Schott
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth. Mark Kurlansky
I’m a different hitter than most. Joey Votto
Preparation is very important. The pitcher is going to do his job and prepare for you, so you as a hitter must do the same. I always watch videotape of pitchers before the game and even sometimes during. Albert Pujols
I’m a leadoff or a two-hole hitter, contact guy. Trea Turner
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. Bill Dedman
We won. The media. We destroyed Barry Bonds, drove him crazy, turned the most disciplined and feared hitter the game has ever known into a fence-swinging hack, drained all the excitement out of his 714 home runs. Jason Whitlock
Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. … Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team? Johnny Bench
For me, it’s about finding ways. Obviously I’m not a great hitter, but I’m going to try and beat you anyway I can. I think about that in every aspect of the game. Running? I’m not the fastest runner, but I can steal a base. For me it’s about taking advantage of what I can. Yadier Molina
I mean, I think I pride myself on being a good hitter so if I have to, my job changes and I have to adapt to do that. Trea Turner
You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you’re going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead. Whitey Ford
Drew McFedries was the hardest hitter I’ve ever been around. A big, strong, athletic guy with power. He didn’t have to hit you with a hard shot or load up – even the little short shots could hurt you. Robbie Lawler
There’s been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He’s a good lefty hitter; he’s hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you’re more likely to have a better outcome. Jacob deGrom
I don’t want to be a slap hitter, but be a dangerous hitter in the lineup and want people to come right at me. Trea Turner
When you hit a player in the head, you’re more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the field, but it was more accepted that – in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. I think nowadays it’s a little over-policed because I will always believe that knocking a hitter down, even hitting a hitter at, sometimes, is part of baseball. Reggie Jackson
You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball. Monte Irvin
You never want to have Yadier Molina up with the bases loaded in the World Series, but, dammit, you wouldn’t want a better hitter up. Maybe that’s not the way most people think, I don’t know. That’s how I think. Gerrit Cole
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. Tony La Russa
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. Robinson Cano
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run. George Will
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June. Carl Yastrzemski
I like the style of National League baseball. I like the different moves that have to be made. I like the fact that the No. 8 spot in the lineup can be one of the more challenging spots. It’s a lot more strategy for that hitter and for the catcher sometimes with the pitcher coming up. Buster Posey
Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper? Max Scherzer
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he’s a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher. Billy Butler
Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player. Bob Feller
I used to be a hitter when I was in high school. Jameis Winston
If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn’t take a hot hitter out of the lineup. Ryne Sandberg
I wouldn’t describe myself as a home run hitter. I’m just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives. Andrew Benintendi
There are different angles you have to work with as a hitter. Figuring out with my body what helps me get into those angles… is a constant discovery. Ben Zobrist
A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.’ Ted Williams
There’s been times where I’ve come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I’ve lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I’m going to pitch. Tim Wakefield
As an average hitter myself, I lacked that true back knee drive. Gabe Kapler
I always believed that all it would take was a decent role. I felt like a pinch hitter with a leaden bat: that if I got a chance, I could hit a home run. Martin Landau
I don’t just want to be a pull hitter or something like that. Fernando Tatis Jr.
I had to lower my hands, I had to work my hips a different way. I also had to stride to get the power. I’d always been a standstill hitter and had to generate power from my upper body. Basically, I had to change everything I was doing. It was really difficult. J. D. Martinez
As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that’s never gonna happen. Cody Bellinger
The leadoff-hitter thing, I think, it’s always nice to have an established leadoff hitter and to have someone who can really get on base and set the tone. Theo Epstein
I never wanted to be a slap hitter. It would hurt my pride if someone called me one. I wanted to be a guy who could do everything. Trea Turner