Ted Williams Quotes

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

  Ted Williams

  Tags in All-Star, Mays

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Too Much, Thinking, Writing

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plate, Gets

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

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

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  Tags in Leagues, Fastball

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pitcher, Mad

• 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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  Tags in Baseball, Hitting

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hitter, Born

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

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  Tags in Dollars, Paid

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pestering, Start

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fan, Interest

• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

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  Tags in Percent, Hitting

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

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  Topics in Future

  Tags in Bigger, Greatest

• 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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  Tags in Baseball, Excel

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

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  Tags in Losers, Furniture

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hitter, Lifetime

• 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

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in Performer, Endeavor

Ted Williams (18)

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

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