I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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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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