You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

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.

It's all about money. Sometimes it is merciful, sometimes it is magnificent and sometimes it is moderate

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

I'm the most un-diva-ish person you'll meet. I'm never rude to people and I am always on time.

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

When you have a Clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity

He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

Any time you audition and get it, you earned it.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.

Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.