The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But hitting is so crazy. You feel great today and get three hits. And the next day you show up and it's, 'What happened to my mechanics? Where's my swing?' Sometimes I even Google it and the search comes up with no results.
When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.
I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.
I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.
You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.
I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.
Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.