Ted Williams was an American baseball player-- a hall of famer.  His career batting average was .344 and he hit 521 homeruns-- despite the fact that his career was interrupted twice for military service.  He is widely considered one of the best hitters of all time.  Here are some of his thoughts:

• You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues
• 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
• If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me
• Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer
• Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders
• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400
• 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 you don't think too good, don't think too much
• 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
• By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it
• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own
• 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
• 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
• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit
• We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger

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