Ted Williams Quotes

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

I could hit the damn ball. No matter who was throwing. Or where the ball was. I left the bench swinging. I didn't get many walks.

If you want to walk me, walk me. But if I see something close to home plate, I want to swing.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

I see myself as a line-drive hitter first.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.

I just try to make contact with the ball. It's obvious that I like to swing the bat. I'm not thinking of taking a lot of pitches.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.