Hank Aaron > Quotes

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
― Hank Aaron

“I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.”
― Hank Aaron

“I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play .”
― Hank Aaron

“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit,”
― Hank Aaron, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

“The day I become content is the day I cease to be anything more than a man who hit home runs.”
― Hank Aaron, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

“I cracked one over a row a trailers that bordered the outfield fence- hit it so hard that Ted Williams came running out from the clubhouse wanting to know who it was that could a bat sound that way when it struck a baseball.”
― Hank Aaron, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

“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.”
― Hank Aaron

“When you hit a home run, just run the bases. Then you can go into the tunnel and get happy.”
― Hank Aaron, I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story