"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."
"No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat."
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Source: Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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