I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.

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.

Very often, we let little things spoil some of our most important treasures—our Moment, our Day, our Life.

I’m only human, she told herself. There’s not enough room in my heart for everyone.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day