Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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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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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 hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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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 hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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