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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

Fall forward. Here’s what I mean: Reggie Jackson struck out 2,600 times in his career – the most in the history of baseball. But you don’t hear about the strikeouts. People remember the home runs. Fall forward. Thomas Edison conducted 1,000 failed experiments. Did you know that? I didn’t either – because number 1,001 was the light bulb. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, ‘He’s saying God screwed the pitcher.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I’d rather do that than hit a home run.

You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do – I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.

If you are anything like me you’ll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low.

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we’ll have to cover some more ground.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we’re going to hit singles.

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.

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

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.

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

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.

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

It doesn’t matter if I hit a home run. It doesn’t matter if we win a game. It doesn’t matter if I go four for four. Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that’s what it’s all about.

They want somebody to hit home runs, and I can be that guy. Why not me, right?

I pride myself on average, not home runs.

If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.

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

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball… The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

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

Between me and my roommate, we’ve hit 400 Major League home runs.

There’ll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.

For a long time, I’d been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Back, back, back, back. Gone.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he’d hit 80 home runs.