Ted Williams Quotes

• If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.

  Ted Williams

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• 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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• 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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• If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

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• I’ve found that you don’t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

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  Tags in Found, Wear

• 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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  Tags in Pestering, Start

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

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  Tags in Time

• Baseball’s future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it’s the greatest game there is!

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  Tags in Bigger, Greatest

• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

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  Tags in Plate, Gets

• 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.’

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• You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

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• They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

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• 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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  Tags in Performer, Endeavor

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

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• 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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• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

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

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• 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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Ted Williams (18)

Birth:	30th August, 1918
Death:	5th July, 2002
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Manager, Baseball Player

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Births

• 1936 - Morris Dees
• 1968 - Peter Orszag
• 1967 - Miranda Otto
• 1899 - Noël Coward
• 1946 - Barbara Smith

Deaths

• 1944 - Philip Guedalla
• 2004 - Agnes Martin
• 1945 - Giovanni Agnelli
• 2011 - Nicol Williamson
• 1998 - William Gaddis