Ted Williams Quotes
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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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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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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.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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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.'
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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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!' And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever.
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Any pitcher throwing sinkers and hard sliders.
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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.
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Batting coaches are just as important as pitching coaches. Lefty O'Doul gave me good advice when he said: 'Don't ever let them change you.' I also asked for help from Cobb, Foxx and Hornsby.