Go Beyond the Poster.
37 baseball quotes from the game's greatest hitters — decoded with the biomechanical principle behind every word, so you can actually use them to develop better hitters.
- What Ted Williams REALLY meant by "get a good pitch to hit" — and how it changes the way you teach pitch selection
- Why Babe Ruth's strikeout philosophy is backed by modern exit velocity research
- The one thing Williams, Aaron, and Trout all said that proves pitch selection is the top multiplier on exit velocity
- How Sadaharu Oh hit 868 home runs at 5'10" — the Catapult Loading System explanation behind his flamingo stance
- Why "short to the ball" is one of the most misunderstood cues in baseball — and what to say instead
"I've been coaching 15 years and this is the first time anyone explained WHY these guys said what they said." — Coach M., Travel Ball Director
11 Players. 37 Quotes. Every Single One Decoded.
These aren't motivational posters. Each quote is connected to a specific CLS biomechanical principle — and explained in a way you can use with your hitter today.
Ted Williams
"A hitter's first obligation is to get a good ball to hit."
Williams wasn't talking about patience. He was describing pitch selection as a force multiplier. The CLS principle behind why borderline pitch contact reduces exit velocity even with perfect mechanics.
Babe Ruth
"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
Ruth's career strikeout rate was among the highest of his era. He accepted this as the cost of his approach. Why modern BES data validates his math exactly.
Sadaharu Oh
How he hit 868 home runs at 5'10" and 173 lbs.
Oh's flamingo one-legged stance wasn't a gimmick. It was an advanced Springy X Pattern that stored elastic energy in the fascial system before any pitch was thrown.
Derek Jeter
"There's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do."
Jeter made 50+ errors in his first pro season. Hall of Famer in Year 21. The motor learning research behind why deliberate repetition outperforms natural talent.
Barry Bonds
"I walk to get on base and score. I don't walk to draw walks."
Bonds set the all-time walk record, but his approach was never passive. The CLS attack zone principle behind why his walk rate was the result of pitchers fearing his damage zone.
Mike Trout
"When I'm seeing the ball well, everything is slow."
The "ball looks slower" phenomenon is real and trainable. The CLS Hitter's Attention Experiment protocol that creates this state on demand — not just when you happen to be locked in.
Joey Myers
Founder, HittingPerformanceLab.com
Why I Built This
The Quotes Were Never the Problem. The Translations Were Missing.
I've coached hitters for over 20 years. And for most of that time, I watched coaches plaster Ted Williams quotes on dugout walls — and then teach the exact opposite of what Williams actually meant.
"Get a good pitch to hit" became "be patient." But Williams wasn't talking about plate discipline for its own sake. He was describing pitch selection as a force multiplier — backed by a zone map he built by tracking his own batting average against 77 different ball locations.
When I developed the Catapult Loading System (CLS), I started to realize that almost everything these greats said — Williams, Ruth, Bonds, Trout — was describing a specific biomechanical principle. They just didn't have the vocabulary for it yet.
This PDF is the translation layer between what they said and how to use it.
Joey Myers is the founder of HittingPerformanceLab.com and creator of the Catapult Loading System (CLS) — a biomechanics-based hitting framework used by coaches and players from youth baseball through the professional level.
This Isn't a Quote Collection. It's a Coaching Toolbox.
Every other baseball quote list stops at the words. This one goes three levels deeper.
The Context
When was it said, what was happening, and why does it matter more than you think? The background that makes the quote land differently.
The Coaching Translation
What the great hitter was actually describing in biomechanical terms — before the science had words for it. What to tell your hitter today.
The CLS Principle
The specific Catapult Loading System principle behind the quote — Spinal Engine, Springy X Pattern, Effective Velocity, BES formula, or RocketHitting Formula.
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