Hank Aaron

Baseball Player

1934-02-05

Quotes by Hank Aaron

• Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back, and - not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys - they didn't play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.

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• The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

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• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

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• I tell young people - including my granddaughter - there is no shortcut in life. You have to take it one step at a time and work hard. And you have to give back.

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• Didn't come up here to read.

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