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 RUTHWealth is always attracted, never pursued.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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You 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.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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