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.
BABE RUTHI had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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.
BABE RUTH







