I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTHIf you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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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