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 RUTHLife is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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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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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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