Ted Williams Quotes

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

Sports, Good, Baseball

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

God, Once, Plate

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

Year, Hit, Paid

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

Greatest, Goes, Goals

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

Nature, Good, Someone

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

Future, Greatest, Game

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

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.
Ted Williams

Mistakes, Game, Saying

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.
Ted Williams

Yourself, Become, Mad

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

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

Earth, Face, Losers

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams

Above, Percent, Hitting

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.
Ted Williams

Money, Important, Game

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

Hope, Start, Last

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

Found, Hit, Wear

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

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

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
Ted Williams

Game, Invented, Mays

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Nationality: American

Born: August 30, 1918

Died: July 5, 2002

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