I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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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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I’m only going one way.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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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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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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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don’t really love their sport, they won’t work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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