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.

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.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he or she relates and connects to his character.

I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper class, those pressures exist at a later age now.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

I think women bring a different perspective into Senate and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.