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.

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.

A prime minister has to keep a certain balance when dealing with sensitive issues.

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because theyre jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark starless nights.

Fortunately there is a solution and its not performing multiple sets of whatever cable Kegel exercise is being pushed as The Answer. Just a little hard smart basic work.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

Gluttons no longer gorge themselves they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders.

Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who cannot be handled by his parents anymore.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Masonry is one of the most sublime and perfect institutions that ever was formed for the advancement of happiness and the general good of mankind creating in all its varieties universal benevolence and brotherly love.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

When hope is hungry everything feeds it.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

You see and work with many of the same people over and over again; they are all specialists in what they do. I could never do their jobs, and they say they wouldn't know how to start to do a warm-up.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.

I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.