(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
BABE RUTHI swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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 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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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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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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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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 you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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