Ted Williams Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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 Williams

  Inspirational, Baseball, Men

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Bats, Hardest

• 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

  Baseball, Boys, Men

  Ted Williams, Jim Prime (1998). “Ted Williams' Hit List”, Masters Press

• Baseball is 50% from the neck up

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Necks

• 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

  Baseball, Thinking, Swings

• If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

  Ted Williams

  Motivational, Baseball, Two

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Baseball, Hard Work, Practice

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

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Needs, Neckties

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Hitting, Fifty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

  Ted Williams

  Baseball

  Ted Williams, Jim Prime (1998). “Ted Williams' Hit List”, Masters Press

• The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Fun, Sound

• If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Running, Years

• 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

  Baseball, Years, Guy

• A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

  Ted Williams

  Baseball, Men, Goal

  Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Mistake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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