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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

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

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

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

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. Youll find what you need to furnish it memory friends you can trust love of learning and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

Thats the life being a fireman. It sure beats being a ballplayer. Id rather be a fireman.

No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

It's time for a brother to be Bond.

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

I am Jewish, Italian, American, Catholic.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language.

When I was growing up, we dressed up for church.

I think it's important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.

It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

Whenever I'm at a party, people are always telling me either to get a new quarterback or make the Taurus back seat bigger.

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

For years, I've been wanting to do something that has a bit more of a dramatical drive and combine it with some action.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

Doctors are human; they make mistakes, and you have to stay on top of them. You have to ask the second question, the third question, the follow-up to the fourth question.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.