No one could swear as well as Ted. Not only were the words showstoppers — words like “cunt” and “cocksucker,” dropped freely with f-bombs and modified by his favorite adjective, “syphilitic” — but there was a way he swore that made his outbursts special. He strung the words together to make elaborate, rococo, profane poetry.

—Leigh Montville, Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero

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