“I can tell when I'm swinging the bat good.” — Chipper Jones Quote

I can tell when I'm swinging the bat good.

I think running the bases is a controlled run, because you have to time your steps to hit each bag. In the outfield, the ball dictates how hard, how fast, you go. And sometimes that's full bore.

Tearing it up in A ball and tearing it up in the big leagues are completely different. For that matter, tearing it up at Double-A and tearing it up in the big leagues are completely different.

When you talk about 50 or so grown men in the middle of a baseball field about to break down and cry, it's a little bit of an uncomfortable situation. We're baseball players and we're guys that are filled with ego.

I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

I'm a businessman. I bring my bat and glove and attache case to the office and go to work. I don't give a damn if the other workers at the office like me or not.