I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
BABE RUTHYou just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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.
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I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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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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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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