Ted Williams Hitting Quotes & Sayings

Not so much looking for the shape
as being available
to any shape that may be
summoning itself
through me
from the self not mine but ours. — A.R. Ammons

We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors. — Warren Buffett

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

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it. — Daniel Cormier

There is always a certain amount of 'transmission loss.' You can have a power generator and if the power is going on 100 miles away, even with very efficient cable there could be a certain amount of loss. — Frederick Lenz

Ignorance didn't feel like bliss. It felt like stupidity, and she hated it. "That — Beth Cato

I'm very pleased and very proud of my accomplishments, but I'm most proud of that (hitting four-hundred home runs and three-thousand hits). Not (Ted) Williams, not (Lou) Gehrig, not (Joe) DiMaggio did that. They were Cadillacs and I'm a Chevrolet. — Carl Yastrzemski

Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40. — George Vecsey

Love exudes from beings who are deeply interconnected and
intensely sharing life; their energy is like the sun,
which radiates in all directions equally. Shadows and
darkness do not exist in their presence; there is only
light, and a kind of timeless quality, effected throught
the generation of Agape, which is forever. — S.T. Georgiou

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders. — Ted Williams

He [Ted Williams] was only a 23-year-old kid when he batted .406 in 1941, but then the season ended and our country came under attack at Pearl Harbor - and by 1943 he was a Marine fighter pilot serving overseas who cheated death on several documented occasions. He came back in 1946, and he won his first career MVP after hitting 38 home runs. — Tucker Elliot

To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys. — Roy Campanella

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

I want him to hurt me, so I won't feel pain. — Nenia Campbell

If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison. — Adolf Hitler

One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams. — Wade Boggs

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest. — Ted Williams