Ted Williams Quotes (32 Quotes)


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

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

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

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

    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.


    Stacey has started to hit the ball, which helps her defensively as well, so she's not carrying that back to the field. Karen is throwing well and is taking that senior leadership role. She tells the girls she's going to get the ground ball, so they have to back her up.

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

    When we have an out and those girls on, we know we can steal. That means we don't have to wait on two hits. Anything in the outfield, we're going to try to send them.

    Kids get separated from their parents all the time. Had his parents paid attention, this little child would not have wandered off.

    Happy Birthday Tommy. We had one for you. Mickey Mantle.

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

    Golf is the only sport where the ball doesn't move until you hit 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.

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

    Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

    Every year we've gone out (to California), it's just a battle to score runs. We practice in the morning for a couple hours, play a game and then if we need to, practice again. It's like two-a-days for football. When we come back, we should know what we're going to do.

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

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

    When I first looked at Yaz Carl Yastrezemski as a rooker, it was obvious that he had so much talent that I told him what Lefty O'Doul told me -- 'Don't change a thing.'

    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.

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

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

    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.

    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.

    They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

    It was overcast and chilly on that Wednesday afternoon, and the temperamental Williams was in a cantankerous mood as he chased away panting writers and photographers before the game. After one cameraman tried to snap him in the clubhouse, Ed Linn wrote in his 1993 biography, Hitter, ... Get one like this

    People want to do what they can. Some give us supplies to bring down, some give money or time.

    He had a great sense of humor. He always made me laugh. He was a pleasure to have in class because of that sense of humor.

    he says. ''It was one of those ponds that are stocked with fish. He told me not to bring any live bait. I got there and he was already waiting for me. He said, 'What's in the cooler' and I said, 'I brought a couple of beers.' He said, 'No beer on this boat,' and I said, 'No fishing for me on this boat. See ya.'

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

    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.


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