I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTHI hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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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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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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