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If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!
Ted Williams
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Ted Williams
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: August 30
Died: 2002
Died: July 5
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California
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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.
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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.
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No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
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The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!
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If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.
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Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.
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If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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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.
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All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.
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The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.
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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.
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There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived
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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.
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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.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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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.
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