What the hell difference does it make?
BABE RUTHAs 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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 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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