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 RUTHThey started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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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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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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