I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
BABE RUTHReading 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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.
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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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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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