"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."

"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."

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

"By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it."

"God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own."

"If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me."

"I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400."

"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400."

"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.'"