I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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I’m only going one way.
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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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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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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