Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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I’m only going one way.
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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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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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