Hitters Quotes

(Mark) Teixeira and (Hank) Blalock are power hitters. I`m not on their level. I`m a line-drive hitter who steals bases. Manny (Ramirez), David Ortiz, Alex (Rodriguez), those guys are power hitters.

- Alfonso Soriano

I`m just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.

- David Ortiz

I heard a lot of good stories from guys who had played (in the AFL) and I considered it a pretty big honor to be invited, ... The best thing I heard about it was that it`s a hitter`s league and I knew I would be facing some of the best Minor League hitters in the game.

- Huston Street

I`ve worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I`ve ever worked with.

- David Carradine

It`s just great to see our starters going deep in games and our bullpen getting some confidence. Now, all we need to do is keep grinding, get some hitters back, and I think we`ll be fine.

- Marcus Giles

It`s different facing hitters. I just wanted to see some results and gain confidence in as close to game situation as I could.

- Matt Morris

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

- Rogers Hornsby

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it`s over.

- Don Drysdale

If they knocked two of your guys down, I`d get four. You have to protect your hitters.

- Don Drysdale

(His spring performance bears him out. Dye was one of Oakland`s most impressive hitters during camp, driving the ball with his old authority.) He`s raking, ... He`s got that confident look in his eye again.

- Eric Chavez

As hitters, we got dominated. This is lucky. (Clemens) absolutely shoved it down our throats. That`s why you give all the credit to Kip for keeping it close.

- Jack Wilson

I don`t know if we`re running out of gas. I can`t explain it, ... It`s just one of those things where we`re kind of in a rut right now. Our starters had a rough couple weeks, and I feel like our starters are really starting to come back and pitch well again. The hitters are having a little rough week now, too.

- Jason Johnson

They`re Major League hitters. You make a mistake, they make you pay.

- Jose Lima

As hitters, we definitely know when we hit a ball well. But then you see where it lands, and you say `Whoa.` That definitely felt good.

- Carlos Pena

(--) You need to add a 40-home-run guy and a guy who hits .310, that`s two hitters, ... You need to re-sign Jeff Weaver, the innings he gives us are priceless....

- Eric Gagne

We were taking advantage of the situation, ... It makes it easier for hitters when a pitcher`s not throwing strikes. The kid (Williams) was having a hard time making adjustments and before we knew it, we had a bunch of runs.

- Jeff Kent

My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

- Juan Marichal

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn`t belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don`t think it`s fair.

- Juan Marichal

I was working on locating my pitches and throwing my slider for a strike. It was nice to get out there and face some hitters.

- Kerry Wood

He`s nasty. But he just faced good hitters. He pitches like a veteran guy, but the thing is, sometimes you need to know about the other team.

- Melvin Mora

He`s one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball.

- Melvin Mora

Hopefully, everybody`s focus is more on the game, or the pitcher that we are facing, or the hitters that we are facing,

- Preston Wilson

It`s just those last three outs. Hitters are going to bear down a little more on those last three outs.

- Roy Oswalt

You face them a lot, and you get to know the hitters a lot. Obviously, they get to see you, too. So, every once in while, you`ve got to pull a few tricks out of your sleeve and see what you can do.

- Wade Miller

I was really proud of the way the girls played, ... They played very well. We were up against a couple of really tough hitters but we defended the ball well. The score may not show it, but it was a very good match to watch. The girls played with their hearts on their sleeves.

- Sarah Smith

Our middle hitters did a good job. Haley (Halcomb) did a nice job dishing the ball to the hitters, finding the holes and dumping the ball off to them.

- Laura Smith

You always hear that when hitters are in a groove, they say that they`re seeing the ball well. But Chad makes it so they can`t.

- Rick Peterson

For the first time in my career last night, I started thinking more about the (opposing) pitcher than the hitters. That man deserves a lot of respect.

- Brian Cooper

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that`s why they don`t like us.

- Bill Lee

If I`d been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we`d have had a special team, most wouldn`t stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

- Alan Adams

Why shouldn`t we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

- Alistair Graham

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It`s not the home-run hitters.

- Andrew Sharnov

I`ve witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

- Andrew Sharnov

What happens is he`s trying to go away there. Javy Lopez was set up down and away. That`s what we do as hitters, we hit mistakes. The ball came over the inside part of the plate and I put a good swing on it. I got the barrel to the ball.

- Andy Lynch

I think it provides an unfair advantage to the hitters.

- Anne Milling

I was in Frank`s office, and we were going over all the Reds` hitters,

- Anne Milling

He had the knack for being able to put the bat on the ball. They would bring in side-arming left-handers and he`d go up there and stroke the ball the opposite way. If they would hang a breaking ball, he`d hit it out of the ballpark. He was one of the better hitters I`ve seen.

- Anne Severson

Pacific played better in game three, I thought. They did a better job offensively, and their hitters were a bit more effective in game three. I felt like we got careless serving and gave up chances to score points. It seemed like whenever we served the ball in, we were effective. They weren`t passing all that well. We just needed to get the ball in play.

- Antoine Colonna

I don`t think I`ll be looking at any video of South African hitters to get ready for the game.

- Antonio Milososki

He can really pitch. He has worked hard and is a very smart guy. I (have) got to say that today he is right there striking out people, stopping rallies, fielding his position, getting base hits and challenging hitters.

- Antonio Tuddles

We are not very big. Our linebacking corps has good size. We are not very big on the defensive line and we are not very big in the secondary, but we do have some quickness and we do have some good hitters. We play a fast style of defense. So far, our hitting and our tackling has been really good.

- Anwar Sadiqi

We have to get better in the mental aspects of the game, ... That`s true for both the pitchers and hitters. The pitchers can`t be giving up hits on 0-2 counts like we have, and the hitters have to find a way to get the runner over when he`s on second with no outs.

- Armando Nava Jr

Sean Casey `s our fifth hitter, and we`re already down six. That makes it tough to come back. They`ve got very good hitters, and they`re not going to miss a lot of mistakes.

- Arnold Hartigan

The two-setter system we tried tonight went smoother than I thought it would. We hit .400 in the first game. We were pretty focused and had a lot of adrenaline going. But that was the first time Hawai`i had seen it so they had no idea. It`s a hard system to defend because you`ve got three hitters coming at you in three different spots every time. We had a lot of single blocks when we were hitting.

- Art Johnson

He just makes pitches when he has to. He gets himself into trouble, but he`s got a slider that seems invisible to hitters.

- Arthur Chapman

He just makes pitches when he has to. He`s got that slider that sometimes looks invisible to hitters, but they`ll swing at it. ... We`ve been calling him Houdini all season long.

- Arthur Chapman

I got ahead of a lot of hitters in that game, and really that`s what I need to do every time out. Controlling the count is very important.

- Arthur Higgins

It`s all about staying aggressive and getting ahead of hitters. I didn`t get ahead of many hitters at all tonight.

- Ashley Morrow

It`s nice to have that (changeup) when you`re behind in the count and not limited to fastball-breaking ball that the hitters recognize out of hand early,

- Ashley Morrow

I really thought I was going to have a good game and give my team a chance to win, even after the first inning, but it didn`t happen. I didn`t get ahead of too many hitters tonight.

- Ashley Morrow