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

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.

If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

If you're laughing, you're healing.

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitution