Top 18 Quotes by Ted Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

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.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

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.'

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.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

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