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.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

I'm a believer in the nap. I don't care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone's going to come back and come to work.

Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

It's an awful risky thing to live.

'Free the Gang,' that's my favorite song because it's so real. All my music is real, it's authentic, but it's something about that song that I love.

Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.

The hardest thing to do in movies is be a day-part player. You have to go in, make your mark, and get out. There's a lot of leading actors who are not good for a lot of a movie, and then suddenly they have good moments, and they're like stepping-stones across a particularly feisty stream. They build careers out of that.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.

The only perfect climate is bed.

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career tree unnecessarily early. Sometimes women say, I know I want to have a family or play in the local symphony, and they start pulling themselves out of their career path. You don't have to take yourself out of the running before you even start.

I don't like getting older, but there's nothing I can do. Hitting 60 wasn't great, but I think I was lucky in not being that beautiful; it can be really cruel on people who have been stunning.

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.