I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

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.

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.

A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.