I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
BABE RUTHAll ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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What the hell difference does it make?
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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A 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.
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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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