How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
BABE RUTHThey started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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 only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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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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 brings me closer to the next home run.
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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’m only going one way.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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What the hell difference does it make?
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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 said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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