By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

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.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, ” Logan said, Silver Frost.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

If you can't make it go away, wait it out.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

I never knew how to throw a fastball, never learned how to throw a curveball, a slider, split-finger, whatever they're throwing nowadays. I was a one-pitch pitcher.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.