Rogers Hornsby's Quotes

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

I've never been a yes man.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.