Run Quotes

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

I feel most like myself... after I run - I go out for five miles every morning.

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.

He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm living his dream.

You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles.

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

He's going for the home run, I'm going for the grand slam. If he gets a lot of strikeouts, I'm getting a shutout. I just have that positivity, that mentality that I can conquer whatever he gives out.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

Running after balls, diving, taking a home run away, it gives me such a good feeling. I am happy to do it.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

People who run away from challenges are cowards and no coward deserves a reward.

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

It's sad that my daughter will get attention because of her daddy. I'm already watching her run around the house and pick up microphones. It's scary.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.