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.

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.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

My roots are firmly planted in the glory of nature. The soil beneath my feet heartens each step.

Wisdom is essential

The next time you hear a person say, 'I don't have time' or 'I have no time, ' Take a moment to be with them. Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.