You know what they say about big hitters. . . the woods are full of them.
Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.
Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.
Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.
There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.
I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.
All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs
Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.
The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.
When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.
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.
My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.
Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.
Hitters are too big, too strong, and their bats are too quick. I have to go inside to have success.
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
