Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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I’m only going one way.
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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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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 hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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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