It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

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

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

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.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

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.'