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.

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.

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.

Until death it is all life

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.