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Hank Aaron
11 quotes
“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.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in the July 31, 1956 issue of The Milwaukee Journal; reproduced in Baseball's Greatest Quotations : An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore (2009) by Paul Dickson, p. 2
“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.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Aaron Turns Bad Pitches Into Base-Hits" by Cleon Walfoort, in The Sporting News (June 26, 1957)
“Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Response to Yogi Berra, who told him to turn his bat around so he could see the trademark during the 1957 World Series, as quoted in Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes (2000) by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard
“[W]hen I was a little boy, my daddy said to me, "Henry, never hurry unless you have to." I've remembered that all my life and here I am in the major leagues.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking with scout Dewey Griggs, circa 1954; quoted in "Sleepy Aaron Arouses Foes" by Bill Furlong, Des Mines Tribune (September 6, 1958), p. 7
“He was my favorite hitter. He could do almost anything he wanted to do at bat. He was a scientific hitter. I've seen him deliberately go for the home run late in a game and get it. Even if it meant pulling an outside pitch, he'd pull because he'd made up his mind to do it. Another thing I liked about him was the power he generated when he hit the ball between the infielders. This is a sure sign of a great hitter.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Stan Musial, as quoted in "The Scoreboard: Braves' Aaron Among Best of Bargains" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (August 30, 1967)
“Terrible. It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to Jack Nicklaus' query, "What kind of golfer are you?"; as quoted in "Aaron Has Career in Day" by the Associated Press, in The Atlanta Constitution (February 23, 1971)
“I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked how he felt breaking Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs, as quoted in "I Just Want People to Remember Hank Aaron" by Tom Saladino (AP), in The Mexia Daily News (July 27, 1974)
“There wasn't any pitcher I felt I couldn't get a hit off.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acoccella and Donald Dewey, p. 3
“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.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have — keep swinging.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution. The mental aspects of hitting were especially important to me. I was strictly a guess hitter, which meant I had to have a thorough knowledge of every pitcher I came up against and develop a strategy for hitting him. My method was to identify the pitches a certain pitcher had and eliminate all but one or two and then wait for them. One advantage I had was quick wrists. Another advantage — and one that all good hitters have — was my eyesight. Sometimes I could read the pitcher's grip on the ball before he ever released it and be able to tell what pitch he was throwing. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.”
Hank Aaron (1934–2021) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Also quoted in Hank Aaron (2007) by Jamie Poolos, p. 48