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I'm a good hitter for a pitcher.
I see myself as a line-drive hitter first.
I used to be a hitter when I was in high school.
I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.
It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.
If a hitter gets hot, I wouldn't take a hot hitter out of the lineup.
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.
I believe that you're a hitter first and you're a slugger second type deal.
I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.
I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.
You never want to lose a strength, but I've also got to try and be a complete hitter.
I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.
I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!
Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?
People probably growing up said U.S. Open wouldn't suit me, because I'm a long hitter, I'm a bomber.
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
I was always the kind of hitter that if you threw it 92 miles per hour at me, I'd hit it right back at you.
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.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
All I really try to do is whatever hitter gets in there, I just try to get him out in as few pitches as possible.
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.
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.
I was kind of a slap hitter, trying to get base hits, hit line drives, stay below a certain trajectory with my ball.
As a hitter, I think if we wanted to change something, we should scoot the mound back. But that's never gonna happen.
There is no doubt that because I am a switch hitter I have one of the best offensive advantages that a hitter can have.
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.
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.
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.
I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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.
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 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.
We try to do a great job of understanding the opposing hitter and his tendencies. Maybe understand the hitter better than he knows himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.