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.
BABE RUTHIf you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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