I was afraid if I started to hit home runs, my average would drop.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
I don't try to hit home runs. I just try to meet the ball and get base hits.
You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.
I am more valuable to my team hitting .330 then swinging for home runs.
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
When you're going into a game, you're not expected to hit a home run every game. You're just doing everything proper with proper swings.
I heard Tony Bennett say that when you're a big deal early on, you have to maintain that level forever, and it's very scary. You have to keep hitting those home runs, turning out hits.