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.
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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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.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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I’m only going one way.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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 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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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