I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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What the hell difference does it make?
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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I’m only going one way.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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