81 Quotes by Ted Williams

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

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

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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