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

Baseball is 50% from the neck up

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.'

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

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

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.

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.