You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth – that means the boys. And after you’ve been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
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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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don’t really love their sport, they won’t work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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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.
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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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