"If I'm gonna be a champion, I want to win as a champion. I'm staying in to the end."
— Ted Williams

January 1, 1970

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Atheists from the United StatesPresidential Medal of Freedom recipientsAviators from the United StatesSportspeople from San Diego
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On his decision to override manager 's decision to sit him on Sunday, September 28, 1941, the final day of the season, in order to protect Williams' .400 average; as quoted in "Ted Williams Discusses Hitting and Ted Williams" by Arthur Daley, in The New York Times (August 18, 1947)