Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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