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.
BABE RUTHI didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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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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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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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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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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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