If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTHTo my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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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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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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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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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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