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 RUTHI learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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 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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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