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.
BABE RUTHRead about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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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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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.
BABE RUTH







