More from Babe Ruth
If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth 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 RuthBabe Ruth Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth 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.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
Babe RuthBabe Ruth
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From our community writers
Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar
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More on control
You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.
Paulo CoelhoPaulo Coelho I have to feel like I’m in control of my body.
Megan FoxMegan Fox One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
Henry FordHenry Ford The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
EpictetusEpictetus The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Tony RobbinsTony Robbins Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt