Ted Williams Quotes

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

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

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. ~ Ted Williams

You've got to be ready for the fastball. ~ Ted Williams

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

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

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

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

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

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. ~ Jack Levine

Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is! ~ Ted Williams

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

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it. ~ Ted Williams

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

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning, ~ Bob Feller

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

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

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year! ~ Ted Williams

Ted Williams hit 17 career grand slams. He is the toughest batter to get out in major league history. It was never fun for opposing pitchers to have to face him, but that was never more true than it was when there was nowhere to put him - and his grand slam total is only one of the many franchise records that he owns. ~ Tucker Elliot

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors. ~ Warren Buffett

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me. ~ Ted Williams

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~ Ted Williams

I cracked one over a row a trailers that bordered the outfield fence- hit it so hard that Ted Williams came running out from the clubhouse wanting to know who it was that could a bat sound that way when it struck a baseball. ~ Hank Aaron

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

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams. ~ Mickey Mantle

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

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own. ~ Ted Williams

When we lose Fenway, we lose the sense that somebody sat here and watched Ted Williams hit. ~ Bob Costas

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

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

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

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

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

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player. ~ Bob Feller

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

Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406 - but did you know that also in 1941, Jeff Heath, an outfielder who spent a decade playing for the Indians, became the first player in AL history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 home runs in the same season? It's true. ~ Tucker Elliot

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. ~ Ted Williams

Baseball is 50% from the neck up ~ Ted Williams

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams. ~ Charlie Rose

No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures. ~ Serena Williams

You're all I've got, Luce. I'll do anything not to lose you," he said, his scar pinching into his cheek. "Just tell me what I'm doing wrong and I'll fix it. ~ Nicole Williams

It was if he'd kissed her awake. ~ Alayna Williams

Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason. ~ Betty Williams

I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs. ~ Harland Williams

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones. ~ Tad Williams

For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that. And ~ Ted Chiang

I think my core values are all about family and just at the end of the day, coming home and knowing that I'm happy being the person that I am - and that doesn't come without struggles, but to me success is just being able to go home and feel like you connected with somebody. ~ Hayley Williams

I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just the foot soldiers in the spiritual war that Mike Bickle and Lou Engle are waging against what they consider sin. They will say it is biblical truth, but the Bible says many things, and you don't see anyone saying that slavery is okay or that we should not eat shellfish. Why the fascination with sex? ~ Roger Ross Williams

Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."? ~ Ted Olson

Ode to Douglas Adams

In the solar system we inhabit, we live on a small planet we all call Earth. Okay, when I say small, I mean it's small compared to say, oh, Jupiter. Earth is something like a dime compared to Jupiter's beach ball. On this Earth is a fairly large country we all call The United States of America. Of course, when I say fairly large, it's like the U.S. is a piece of broccoli next to China's really large cauliflower. Now that I think of it, that may not be a good comparison as it depends on the restaurant you go to. At the place I was at last night it would be a good comparison as the cauliflower was larger than the broccoli. Not that I'd touch either. I had a hamburger with fries and somebody at the next table had those ghastly vegetables.

From the Preface to "Sex and the American Male." I was saddened by the passing of Douglas Adams and wrote the preface to sound a little like his "Hitchhiker's..." books and to honor him. I hope he's smiling. ~ Jay Williams

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception. ~ Ted Dekker

I don't have a good British accent. ~ Serena Williams

Let's take a sentimental journey. Don't forget to bleed. I have. ~ Ted Berrigan

In memory, everything seems to happen to music. ~ Tennessee Williams

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls! ~ Ted Grant

When in doubt, go for the dick joke. ~ Robin Williams

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone. ~ Ted Koppel

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time. ~ Serena Williams

I now have to find a reason to write, every single day. ~ Walter Jon Williams

You can't play well if you don't look good. ~ Serena Williams

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is ... Paul Ryan. ~ Charles Krauthammer

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt. ~ Robin Williams

Making another effort to be paradoxical, Williams decides to identify Orwell as an instance of 'the paradox of the exile'. This, which he also identified with D. H. Lawrence, constituted an actual 'tradition', which, in England:

attracts to itself many of the liberal virtues: empiricism, a certain integrity, frankness. It has also, as the normally contingent virtue of exile, certain qualities of perception: in particular, the ability to distinguish inadequacies in the groups which have been rejected. It gives, also, an appearance of strength, although this is largely illusory. The qualities, though salutary, are largely negative; there is an appearance of hardness (the austere criticism of hypocrisy, complacency, self-deceit), but this is usually brittle, and at times hysterical: the substance of community is lacking, and the tension, in men of high quality, is very great.

This is quite a fine passage, even when Williams is engaged in giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Orwell's working title for Nineteen Eighty-Four was 'The Last Man in Europe,' and there are traces of a kind of solipsistic nobility elsewhere in his work, the attitude of the flinty and solitary loner. May he not be valued, however, as the outstanding English example of the dissident intellectual who preferred above all other allegiances the loyalty to truth? Self-evidently, Williams does not believe this and the clue is in the one word, so seemingly innocuous in itself, ~ Christopher Hitchens

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery. ~ Ted Allen

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ~ Sarah Williams

Let us have all the delights of which we are capable. ~ Charles Williams

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. ~ Tad Williams

I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look. ~ Anna Kournikova

If you wouldn't show or tell your mom, boss, and ex-boyfriend, then don't put it on Facebook. ~ Kelly Williams Brown

[Knowing God] ... call it love, yes, only that can sound too emotional, or call it faith, and that can sound too cerebral. And what is it? Both, and neither ... [its] the decision to be faithful, the patient refusal of easy gratifications ... of Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane and on the cross, that bloody crown of love and faith. That is how I learn finally of a God who will not be fitted into my catergories and expectations ... the living truth too great for me to see, trusting that He will see and judge and yet not turn me away ... That is the mercy which will never give us, or even let us be content with less than itself and less than the truth ... we have seen the truth enacted in our own world as mercy, grace and hope, as Jesus, the only-begotten, full of grace and truth.. ~ Rowan Williams

Don't let Satan beat you with lies and don't let him keep you from your family now. ~ Susette Williams

You don't have to come with me," Ash said. "I only brought you along because you're good with a knife. And got us the uniforms. And the explosives."
Lila snorted. "Sorry I'm not pulling my weight."
"This may not be your idea," Ash said doggedly, "but it's what we're going to do."
"Is it? Are you really going to start playing the prince card after all?"
"Don' start in about my mother the queen, because I don't want to hear it."
"All right, then, as your peer and absolute equal, I can't help thinking this is a really bad idea. ~ Cinda Williams Chima

I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him ~ Steve Williams

Jazz, like left-wing politics and 'the common man', was a cause. ~ Martin T. Williams

You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.) ~ Tad Williams