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.
BABE RUTHThe only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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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.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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