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

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.

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.

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

You have the power to take our country back.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.

Great souls are harmonious.

A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.