Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
BABE RUTHDon’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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