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

People always told me that my natural ability and good eyesight were the reasons for my success as a hitter. They never talk about the practice, practice, practice.

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

The most fun I ever had in my life was hittin' a baseball. And the best sound I ever heard in my life was a ball hit with a bat. Powww!

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

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