Ted Williams Quotes

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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.
• 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.
• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted…
• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
• You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
• They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
• 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.…
• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
• 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…
• If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
• If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes
• 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…
• Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
• If there was ever a man born tA vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it…
• If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

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