People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

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.

Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.

May you grace for good deeds.

It's like he's my family, except better, because I've chosen him.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

I only train, I don't know what a break is.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

No more kisses for you, until you have eaten !