It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
BABE RUTHIf I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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