Name	Ted Williams (Teddy Samuel Williams)
Other Name(s)	Teddy Ballgame The Splendid Splinter The Kid
Height	6' 3½"  (192 cm)
Build	Slim
Hair Color	Brown - Light
Date of Birth	August 30, 1918
Birthplace	San Diego, California
Star Sign	Virgo
Died	July 5, 2002 (Aged 84)
Location of Death	Inverness, Florida
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
High School	Herbert Hoover High School, San Diego, California
Occupation	Baseball
Celebrity Index	Te
Claim to Fame	last player in Major League Baseball to bat over .400 in a single season (.406 in 1941)
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Quotes

By the time you know what to do, you`re too old to do it.

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Baseball`s future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it`s the greatest game there is!

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You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

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

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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

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

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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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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

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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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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.`

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They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

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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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If you don`t think too good, don`t think too much.

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I`ve found that you don`t need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

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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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See also Trivia Index (T) :: Quotes Index (T) :: Connections Index (T)

• Ted Williams and Lee Howard
• Ted Williams and Julie Adams
• Ted Williams and Doris Soule

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