Hank Aaron Quotes
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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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.
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
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I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job... He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
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Me.
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Failure is a part of success.
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
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I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I'd just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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When he was healthy, there was nobody better than Campanella as both a catcher and a hitter. But I played with Del Crandall a long time and he was a match for anybody defensively.
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I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.
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There wasn't any pitcher I felt I couldn't get a hit off.
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I like those lefties, but when you're hitting, all pitchers look alike. I don't care too much who's throwing or what he throws. When my timing is off, I have trouble; when it ain't, I don't.
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Hello, Stonefingers.