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.
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 let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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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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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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