They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
BABE RUTHThat last one sounded kinda high to me.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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 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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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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