Ted Williams Baseball Quotations

I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

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

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

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.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime...

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders

Baseball is 50% from the neck up

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

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.

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