If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take 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.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Close your eyes because all the great sounds of existence can best be heard with eyes shut!

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.