If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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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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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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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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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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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I’m only going one way.
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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 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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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