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.
BABE RUTHYou 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.
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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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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 hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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