Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at 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 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.
No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
God gets you to the plate, but once you’re there you’re on your own.
You’ve got to be ready for the fastball.
They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime...
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.
The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.
You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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.