I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
BABE RUTHA 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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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’m only going one way.
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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