What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
BABE RUTHThe way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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