This collection holds 86 home run quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Chris Berman, Rex Ryan and Scott Elrod.

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Back, back, back, back. Gone.

I'm not a bunt guy, I'm a home run guy.

Nothing great happens when you hold back.

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

These kids today, everything is about hitting a vocal home run.

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.

You don't hope to go up and hit a single. You go up and hope to hit a home run.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

I mean the home run king, to me, is Hank Aaron, but statistically, it's Barry Bonds.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

When I was a kid, watching All-Star week on TV, the Home Run Derby was a highlight for me.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

I watch the Dodgers every night - no reading anymore - and I dream that I could have hit that home run.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'

The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn't worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid. Maybe some kids are watching me. I would like to return that.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

One and done, Home Run Derby champion. It was a cool experience. I enjoyed it all, but I don't think I really need to go out there and do it again.

I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.

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.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

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.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

I have power, but focus on the overall athletic event - the technique you have to execute before acquiring the knockout. You have to play the game before you hit a home run, right?

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing home run derby with my old man, we just watched wrestling together.

The filibuster is used more aggressively, so I think doing each individual appropriations bill through regular order would be a home run. But I think that we should try to hit a few singles.

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