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

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

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

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

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.

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