Quotes from Ted Williams

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

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.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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, practice, practice.

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

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

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

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

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