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Motivation Quote by Barry Bonds

"I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball"

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Born to hit a baseball is the kind of brag that lands differently when it comes from Barry Bonds: not a wide-eyed prospect but a player whose body, numbers, and reputation became a national argument. The line is blunt to the point of parody, yet it’s also strategic. Bonds frames his ability as fate, not effort, not coaching, not chemistry. He’s staking a claim on something untouchable: natural gift. In a sport obsessed with mechanics, percentages, and provenance, he’s pulling the conversation back to the oldest baseball myth, the born hitter.

The second sentence tightens the screw. I can hit a baseball is almost childlike in its simplicity, like he’s refusing to audition for anyone’s approval. That repetition reads less like emphasis and more like insistence: you can debate my legacy, but you can’t erase the core fact of the thing I do. It’s a statement built to shut down follow-up questions, the verbal equivalent of turning away from the locker-room scrum.

Context matters because Bonds didn’t just hit baseballs; he broke the frame around what hitting could look like. Every record he approached came with an asterisk-shaped shadow, and the public conversation often treated his achievements as evidence in a trial. This quote answers that atmosphere with a shrug and a dare. It’s not an apology, not even an explanation. It’s a reminder that before the scandal narrative, before the moral scorekeeping, there was the irreducible spectacle: a man who could square up a pitch better than almost anyone who ever lived.

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Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is a Athlete from USA.

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