All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

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

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.

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.'

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

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

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.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

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.

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.