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 RUTHIf it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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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 don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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