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

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

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.

I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.

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.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

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