DiMaggio was the greatest all-around player I ever saw. His career cannot be summed up in numbers and awards. It might sound corny, but he had a profound and lasting impact on the country.
Ted Williams
Related Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player. BOB FELLER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I was always working out, ... I don't believe Ted Williams ever lifted a weight in his life. But I w... CHIP SIGMON He's the greatest all-around player ever at Timber Creek. He might not be the best shooter or the be... GARRY SAUNDERS An outfield composed of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of DiMaggio... CONNIE MACK I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams... TONY GWYNN We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musici... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his d... PETER BARRIS They should free his remains. I'm a huge fan of Ted Williams. When I was a kid, the first bat I got ... DANIEL EDWARDS I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about ho... HOWIE CARR When I was a kid, man, my dad used to buy me the Ted Williams glove at Sears with the Ted Williams s... TONY GWYNN Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career. GAIL KELLY Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression... LAWRENCE R. KLEIN This might be the last match ever in his career. I thought he wrestled the best match of his career. MARK SOMMER Matt (Williams the coach) said that he saw my role as coming off the bench as an impact player but o... JASON WHITE Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He... MICKEY MANTLE It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a sta... HUBERT MARTIN A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th... TED WILLIAMS If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are s... WILLIAM PETERSEN A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Te... TED WILLIAMS His hand-eye coordination, I have not seen anybody but Ted Williams that was like that. FELIPE ALOU I'm inconsolable at the present time, I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greate... MARIAH CAREY I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums ... RON WOOD One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about h... WADE BOGGS He plays an all-around game and has fun out there, ... He's going to be a fun player to watch throug... DALE MURPHY I had watched Magic my whole career, even before my career, and so I knew the style of player that h... SCOTTIE PIPPEN You saw the greatest player who has ever played the game come up the 18th hole. TOM WATSON Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around... GEORGE VECSEY The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. C. L. R. JAMES I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever... LESLEY GARRETT Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those. RICHARD BEN CRAMER He had to have been a lonely guy. He gave up his whole life for his career, ... When he was on the r... STEVE ALLEN I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting care... HALLE BERRY It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you... JAMES WOODS Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country. ADAM COHEN Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN Greg Page ... was one of the greatest amateurs I ever saw, and that's 40 years of watching. But I pu... BERT SUGAR I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived. MONTE IRVIN Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see ... TONY GWYNN William Shakespeare has had an impact on the artistic imagination, on language, literature and all t... PETER SELLEY Eddie Jones is an All-Star caliber player who has had a terrific NBA career. He is a great three-poi... JERRY WEST My lasting memory of her will be as one of the great communicators with young people that I've ever ... DAVE MAGARITY In 1942, Ted Williams' draft status was 1A, meaning he was going to be among the first people to go ... LARRY HARTZELL When it happened I was scared. All I could think of was Brian Williams [ex-Giant center] who lost hi... MICHAEL STRAHAN He's one of the greatest guys I ever knew. It's a sad, sad story. He always saw his glass as overflo... DICK GOULD It might be the greatest game ever played. I'd like to hear other nominations. We were just joking a... THEO EPSTEIN These numbers show more fully the impact of the attacks of Sept. 11 on our country, ... We had been ... ELAINE CHAO It was a great privilege to study with him — and I have felt he's the greatest for four reasons: o... CHRISTOPHER PARKENING He was J. DiMaggio, and that was his business. He always was served and hosted - he was America'... RICHARD BEN CRAMER It's a well-deserved award for Adam. He's a kid that's worked hard to be an all-around player. When ... JEFF CALDWELL Coach Helfer was recruiting another player on the team and he saw me play and he liked me. I wasn't ... DOMINIQUE HOLMES When I saw him in Florida, all I really knew was he had good feet. We were told he had some tools an... CRAIG RAMSAY I saw the way Downie had played all game and I knew he was a player who played with an edge. We exch... JACK JOHNSON When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned... EDDIE MURRAY Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the wa... ELGIN BAYLOR Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few lea... DANE BRADSHAW The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like h... DENNIS COFFIN Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything. DOUG HARVEY We lost an extraordinary judge, an extraordinary member of the Supreme Court, someone who has had a ... TOM DASCHLE You know, the greatest epitaph in the country is here in Arizona. Its in Tombstone, Ariz. , and this... HARRY S TRUMAN This year he played all five positions at one time or another. He's just a tremendous 1-A basketball... MICK GALLOWAY Queito is the type of player who has world class speed, but he only lined up on the outside maybe tw... HAROLD JACKSON Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything ... DANIEL SNYDER It wasn't as though he didn't have choices. He could have expanded his career, maybe further it with... BOB FULLER I might be pursuing a career in making hydrogen cars, ... There's a scientist in Kansas City, he has... KATHY SIERRA The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chi... LISA MURKOWSKI This company was bought, not sold. I chased Jim around the country for five months because I saw wha... JEFF LUNSFORD So, what did you think of the Unseelie Court?" A slow, wicked smile spread on his face. "... HOLLY BLACK Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appe... STEPHEN FRY I think I got very lucky on this, ... The Red Sox players of that team just were particularly pleasa... DAVID HALBERSTAM I met with Ted during that same period and supposedly he was very unhappy, but he was very focused, ... ROBERT PITTMAN He was an energetic player. In the year we practiced, I never saw anybody steal the ball from him. H... BYRON LARKIN That was his best round this year and it might be his best round ever. That shows he's coming around... HANK DAVIDSON Well, he needed it. He was about to cry, and the next time I saw him he had a smile on his face, so ... LARRY WHEELER He was a thin kid, a good basketball player, flashy. But his body wasn't developed, and you could pu... AARON MCKIE I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw... J.D. SALINGER He (Walker) is so talented. He is a heck of a player. You just imagine when he was really in his pri... TONY LA RUSSA Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria. VANCE PACKARD Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria VANCE PACKARD I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. ... AL DAVIS But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I... WAYLON JENNINGS He might be the best all-around player in baseball today. If we're going to put our money somewhere ... PHIL GARNER He was probably the best-blocking running back I ever saw. He was just an outstanding player who alw... DON HEWITT He's a very talented offensive player that put up big numbers. He has not had the chance to probably... JOE GIRARDI He had swallowed his tongue and was blue. I saw the collision and knew that he was going to be uncon... MARK JONES We've done about a half-dozen of these shows together over the years, and from the first time, it se... LUCINDA WILLIAMS When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted W... CHARLIE ROSE Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slo... JUDD NELSON From 1964 to 1969, he was the best player in the country, ... It's sad as hell, but I don't think we... DENIS LAW I see scoring up this year but I don't see the numbers lasting. Personally, I think the high numbers... PETER FORSBERG I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran t... WILL MCDONOUGH He's the most gifted player that I've ever seen in my life. I've seen a lot of people play. I've see... JOHN MCENROE It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctan... JIMMY STEWART He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors... AKSHAY VASU The other argument for Sutter is 'dominance,' the notion that he was a player who was a special one ... JOE SHEEHAN Colby, his last two games of his career, he scored 25 and 26 points and that was his career high ton... JASON SPEAR I was kind of giving up hope on it and all of a sudden the numbers came in. LOUIS FRANKEL Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was... DAVID ROBINSON I cannot put into words how happy I was to have had the opportunity to be around him as much as I wa... OSSIE DAVIS It was in the open market that we found Joe DiMaggio with the San Francisco Seals. A bad knee had sc... JACOB RUPPERT
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TED WILLIAMS If you don't think too good, don't think too much TED WILLIAMS Happy Birthday Tommy. We had one for you. Mickey Mantle. TED WILLIAMS [It was overcast and chilly on that Wednesday afternoon, and the temperamental Williams was in a can... TED WILLIAMS I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit. TED WILLIAMS There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad... TED WILLIAMS We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, a... TED WILLIAMS Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest gam... TED WILLIAMS If you don't think too good, don't think too much. TED WILLIAMS We believe strongly if it was a white person who had been shot in that county, (the shooter) would h... TED WILLIAMS By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it. 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TED KOPPEL The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do. TED KOPPEL I think we're glazing eyes all across America. TED KOPPEL I have the necessary lack of tact. TED KOPPEL There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. ... TED KOPPEL In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. TED KOPPEL History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. TED KOPPEL Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not ... TED KOPPEL People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the '... TED KOPPEL There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. TED KNIGHT Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. TED KNIGHT People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. TED HUGHES It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. TED HUGHES What happens in the heart simply happens. TED HUGHES We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and ... TED ENGSTROM Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. TED ENGSTROM The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. TED ENGSTROM What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? 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TED DEUTCH When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more t... TED DEUTCH We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating. TED DEUTCH Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fa... TED DEUTCH We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans. TED DEUTCH It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them h... TED DEUTCH Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans ar... TED DEUTCH I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and... TED DEUTCH We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pip... TED DEUTCH I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast... TED DEUTCH This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak... TED DEUTCH Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. TED DEUTCH Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a l... TED DEUTCH As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just... TED DEUTCH It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo... TED DEUTCH From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the darin... TED DEUTCH I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we sta... TED DEUTCH For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ... TED DEUTCH It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place. TED DEUTCH There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. TED DEMME The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two f... TED DEMME That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... TED DEMME I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. TED DEMME I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. 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TED DEKKER I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ... TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novel... TED DEKKER I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I ... TED DEKKER My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th... TED DEKKER All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ... TED DEKKER My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und... TED DEKKER It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d... TED DEKKER My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r... TED DEKKER Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... TED DEKKER If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s... TED DEKKER I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... TED DEKKER What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th... TED DEKKER When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet... TED DEKKER My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas... TED DEKKER For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ... TED DEKKER Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality... TED DEKKER Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ... TED DEKKER While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey... TED DEKKER The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a... TED DEKKER My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ... TED DEKKER If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i... TED DEKKER It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da... TED DEKKER Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What... TED DEKKER Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. TED DANSON Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit... TED DANSON We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick... TED DANSON We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol... TED DANSON If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot... TED DANSON When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. TED DANSON 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a... TED DANSON Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli... TED DANSON I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca... TED DANSON The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve... TED DANSON Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i... TED DANSON We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons... TED DANSON We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi... TED DANSON Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them... TED DANSON The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends up... TED DANSON You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy. TED DANSON Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding... TED DANSON The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it... 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