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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Babe Ruth

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH

Home Oneself Run Sports Touch
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.
BABE RUTH

Anger Baseball Death Family Father Injury Myself
Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
BABE RUTH

Ability Myself Yourself
I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
BABE RUTH

Believe Home Running Yourself
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
BABE RUTH

Alcohol Beer Thinking Wine Young
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
BABE RUTH

Expectation Men Noise
Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
BABE RUTH

Games Life Sports
I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
BABE RUTH

Baseball Generosity Years
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.
BABE RUTH

Believe Forget Sports Writing Yourself
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.
BABE RUTH

Baseball Business Difference Forget Men Money People
Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
BABE RUTH

Advice Baseball Motivational
I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
BABE RUTH

Game Golf Need
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
BABE RUTH

Attraction Prosperity Pursue Wealth
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 RUTH

Baseball Goodness Reading Run Sports
I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
BABE RUTH

Money Myself Play
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
BABE RUTH

Game Gratitude Sport Success

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