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.
BABE RUTHDon’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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What the hell difference does it make?
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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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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