If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don’t really love their sport, they won’t work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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