I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
BABE RUTHIf it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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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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.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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I’m only going one way.
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