Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
BABE RUTHI 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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 swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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’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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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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