"I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball"
About this Quote
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.
Quote Details
| Topic | Sports |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bonds, Barry. (2026, January 17). I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-born-to-hit-a-baseball-i-can-hit-a-baseball-39189/
Chicago Style
Bonds, Barry. "I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-born-to-hit-a-baseball-i-can-hit-a-baseball-39189/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-born-to-hit-a-baseball-i-can-hit-a-baseball-39189/. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.





