Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
BABE RUTHIf it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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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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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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