The best Quotes by Hank Aaron

The best Quotes by Hank Aaron

Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder and designated hitter who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. Considered one of the greatest baseball players in history, he spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL).

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.
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.
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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.
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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
The biggest difference from Hawaii and Alabama would probably be there's no beaches. But other than that, the people are very nice.
How long does it take to get from Louisiana to Alabama?
One Mississippi.
Leroy Brown: "Joe! That's your grandniece, that's kin to you!"
Joe Simmons: "Grandniece? What the hell is a grandniece? I'm from Alabama. After daughter, it don't damn matter."
Joe Simmons in A Madea Homecoming
Alabamians don't tell you to wait before rushing a decision… they say "don't count your chickens before they hatch."
Alabama girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.
Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.
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You really cannot set a standard, because Georgia is my home state, my home team. No other team can match what Georgia can offer. Schools cannot really match that, so that is an edge for Georgia.
The ridiculousness of thinking that some sort of global Illuminati wrote down their plot for killing of 95 % of humanity on a giant granit post-it note and left their secret plan somewhere no conservative would ever find it: rural Georgia.
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) - Rocks
In Texas, it's football. In Georgia, football. There's an appreciation from the average person about football more than anywhere else. And we have that for basketball in New York. And we'll always have that in New York.
I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.
Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.
Corey Seager - May 2021
About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.
You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.
I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.
I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball.
If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.
Donald Tusk (about German soldiers helping with floodings in Poland) - September 2024

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