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

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.

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.'

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 afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

Our Scottish theory ... is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.