Home Run Quotes

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth

Home, Next, Run

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth

Home, Made, Sure

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

Music, Home, Business

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
Kristen Stewart

Love, Time, Home

I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.
Kristen Stewart

Love, Time, Home

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
Jesse Jackson

Great, Home, Judge

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

Home, Movies, Happen

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.
Hank Aaron

Home, Alone, Baseball

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

Time, Home, Trying

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.
Ryne Sandberg

Home, Important, Down

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

Home, Baseball, Run

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.
Willie Stargell

Home, Angry, Him

When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
Mickey Mantle

Home, Care, Long

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
Gary Sheffield

Money, Home, Baseball

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

Love, Home, Between

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

Home, Nothing, Run

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.
Chili Davis

Time, Home, Game

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

Home, Touch, Run

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

Funny, Home, Business

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.
Jimmy Chamberlin

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.
James Lee Burke

Success, Home, Today

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

Home, Today, Everything

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.
Bill Lee

Home, Him, Thought

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

Home, Might, Run

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.
Bert Campaneris

Home, Game, Fighting

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.
Tony Oliva

Love, Home, Forget

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.
Bobby Thomson

Home, Famous, Game

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.
Hank Sauer

Home, After, 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.
Ken Harrelson

Home, Everything, Baseball

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