I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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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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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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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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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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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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
BABE RUTH







