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.
BABE RUTHThe only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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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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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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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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.
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