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.
BABE RUTHThe 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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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 said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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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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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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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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