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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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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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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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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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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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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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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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
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