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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.


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VENUS WILLIAMS You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS