- Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
- A kid copies what is good. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I was looking through a knothole, and I said, 'Geez, does that guy look good!'
- 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.
- At Fenway, I remember him hitting this long, long homer over the Wall into the teeth of a gale, and I remember looking at all those muscles as he trotted around the base and shaking that huge hand of his as he crossed the plate - and feeling almost weak. I was a skinny guy anyway, and I felt weak in comparison to Jimmie Foxx.
- 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.
- I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
- I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
- If I was being paid $30,000 a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
- Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
- DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career cannot be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.
- By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
- 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.'
- Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
- If there was ever a man born to be a hitter, it was me.
- Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as someone else but to be better. That is the nature of man and the name of the game.
- People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.
- I used to hit tennis balls, old baseballs, balls made of rags - anything. I didn't think I'd be a particularly good hitter. I just liked to do it. - on practicing hitting while growing up
- When somebody says nice things about me, it goes in one ear and out the other. But I remember the criticism the longest. I hate criticism.
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