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.'

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

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

-- Muhammad Ali

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

-- Charles Dickens

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

-- Carl von Clausewitz

Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled.

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hold fast to your ideals and live by your convictions. Those who lose sight of their ideals and convictions have already lost before the battle begins.

-- Oda Nobunaga

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- Sakamoto Ryōma