You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTHWhat I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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.
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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 had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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 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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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