Top 33 Ted Williams Quotes
#1. By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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#2. The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
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#3. Joe DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career can not be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.
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#4. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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#5. The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!
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#6. It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.
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#7. Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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.
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#11. If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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#15. All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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#16. They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
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#17. Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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#18. No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
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#19. I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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#20. Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
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#21. Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.
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#22. If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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#23. If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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#25. God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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#26. The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.
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#28. No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.
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#29. If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
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#30. I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
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#31. You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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#32. Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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#33. There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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