Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTHGee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don’t really love their sport, they won’t work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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I’m only going one way.
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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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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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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