Top 55 Quotes About Ted Williams
#1. When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams shoes with the eight stripes on 'em. I used to play Little League, and I was Ted Williams-ed out.
Tony Gwynn
#2. Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
Bob Feller
#3. Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning,
Bob Feller
#5. That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field - The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed - it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game
Jayson Stark
#6. One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
Wade Boggs
#7. The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field.
Ty Cobb
#8. I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
Jack Levine
#9. When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.
Charlie Rose
#10. When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
Eddie Murray
#11. I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet.
Carl Yastrzemski
#12. To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.
Roy Campanella
#13. Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game.
Bill Dedman
#14. In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.
Hank Aaron
#15. I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.
Tony Gwynn
#16. Having been aware of the Red Sox since the 1946 World Series, having been growled at by Ted Williams as a young reporter in 1960, having been present at the horror of 1986 and the comeback of 2004, I have seen the highs and lows of some other people's favorite team.
George Vecsey
#17. 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.
Ted Willams
#18. When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit.
Bob Costas
#19. Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.
Tony Gwynn
#20. When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.
Eddie Mathews
#21. Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.
George Vecsey
#22. No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
Ted Williams
#23. I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams
#24. Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
Ted Williams
#25. 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.
Ted Williams
#26. Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.
Ted Alexandro
#27. If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Ted Williams
#28. If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
Ted Williams
#30. God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Ted Williams
#31. The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.
Ted Williams
#33. 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.
Ted Williams
#34. If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
Ted Williams
#35. I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.
Ted Williams
#36. You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
Ted Williams
#37. Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
Ted Williams
#38. 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.
Ted Williams
#39. 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.
Ted Williams
#40. By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
Ted Williams
#41. The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.
Ted Williams
#42. 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.
Ted Williams
#43. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
#44. The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!
Ted Williams
#45. 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.
Ted Williams
#46. Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
Ted Williams
#47. 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.
Ted Williams
#48. Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams
#49. 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.
Ted Williams
#50. If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
Ted Williams
#51. 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.
Ted Williams
#52. 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.
Ted Williams
#53. I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
Ted Williams
#54. All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Ted Williams
#55. They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.
Ted Williams
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