TED WILLIAMS

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

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.

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.'

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

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

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.

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

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

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.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

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

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

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

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Unrestricted dumping in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters harms the habitat and harms the fish. You don’t have to be a fisherman to understand this, it’s plain to anyone.

The first flash of genius lights up only a few yards of the road. The road is long and uphill.

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!

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

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, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.