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.
BABE RUTHAs 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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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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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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.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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