Ted Williams

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!