I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
BABE RUTHI’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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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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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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What the hell difference does it make?
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I’m only going one way.
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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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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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