I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
BABE RUTHWell, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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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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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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