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.
BABE RUTHThe only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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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 didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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 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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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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.
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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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