You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
More Quotes from Ted Williams:
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.Ted Williams
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.'
Ted Williams
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.
Ted Williams
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Ted Williams
Golf is the only sport where the ball doesn't move until you hit it.
Ted Williams
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.'
Ted Williams
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