Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: August 30, 1918 Death: July 5, 2002
All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.".
No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard….
The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret..
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer..
God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own..
I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are great….
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..
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400..
People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, prac….
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 l….
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….
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think..
No one has come up with a substitute for hard work..
It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will t….
All the bullets and all the bombs that explode all over the world won't leave the impact, when all is said and done, of a dollar bill dropped in the ….
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it..
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely..
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit..
It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty ….
The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!.
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth..