I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
BABE RUTHWhat I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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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 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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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