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Hank Aaron Quotes
“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.”
“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.”
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
“Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.”
“I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.”
“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.”
“Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.”
“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.”
