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.
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 thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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 had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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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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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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