If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTHI hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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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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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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