A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don’t make any difference if it’s baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It’s business, I tell you. There ain’t no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
BABE RUTHAll ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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What the hell difference does it make?
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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