If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
BABE RUTHYou 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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