If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTHThey started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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’m only going one way.
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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’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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 hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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