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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.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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.
The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
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.'
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.
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.
When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.