Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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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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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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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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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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