Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Williams

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.

Ted Williams

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

Ted Williams

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Ted Williams

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

Ted Williams

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

Ted Williams

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.

Ted Williams

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

Ted Williams

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders

Ted Williams

Baseball is 50% from the neck up

Ted Williams

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

Ted Williams

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!

Ted Williams

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.

Ted Williams

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.

Ted Williams

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.

Temple Grandin

A real common problem with a lot of animals is that guys are bad, hate to say it, but they will tune into some big feature like the glasses, maybe the beard, baseball hats, you know some unique feature like that. And they'll generalize like, "Okay! All people with baseball hats or black rimmed glasses are bad."

Temple Grandin

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

Fay Vincent

The committee's focus is on what we positively know about Buck, and that is he was a very important part of our baseball history, not just Negro League history, and he was honored by being a very strong candidate for election.

Richard Rodriguez

I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

Michael Wilbon

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

Missy Peregrym

I wanted to go on the red carpet with a baseball cap, t-shirt, and jeans. And I still do. Because that's really who I am.

Misty May-Treanor

Once the day is over in volleyball, I leave the court and no one sees or hears from me for the rest of the day. I like to keep work at work. It's pretty easy for me to live a pretty normal life. I like to coach and I like to sit in a crowd at a baseball game. No one really recognizes me unless I'm walking around a beach half-naked in a suit with my name on it. Of course, I have it easier than Kerri. When you're 6-3 you tend to stick out a little bit.

Mike Lowell

Baseball is important, but it's about fifth place behind my kids, my wife and the health of my family.

Miguel Cabrera

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

Mickey Spillane

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Jose Canseco

I am and will always be just simply a basball [sic] player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

Jose Canseco

The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and white athletes like Mark McGwire, Cal Ripken Jr., and Brady Anderson were protected and coddled in a way that an outspoken Latino like me never would be. The light-eyed and white-skinned were declared household names. Canseco the Cuban was left out in the cold, where racism and double standards rule.

Jose Canseco

I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

Jose Canseco

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Jose Canseco

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

Jose Canseco

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Kurt Cobain

I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.

Khaled Hosseini

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Jimmy Piersall

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.