If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
BABE RUTHYou just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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 hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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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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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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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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 don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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