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.
BABE RUTHA part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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 thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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 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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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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