Quotes from Ted Williams

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

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

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely

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

He told me the single most important thing for a hitter was "to get a good ball to hit.

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

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

Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit.

The inside half of the plate. That's where history's made.

The only thing dumber than a pitcher is two pitchers.

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.'

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

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 greater.

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

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