If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

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.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

Optimism, " said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

We're going to bring our core message of hope and how God is a good God who's on our side.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

I still love coming home, but home is where the heart is. I take those whom I love most with me. That's my number one. My number two is being ready.