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.

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.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

What the hell difference does it make?

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