Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

If something looks good, I'm swinging. They pay me to hit. I look at the ball and swing.

He's got to swing better than he's swinging, that's for sure.

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing