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 RUTHLove the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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. 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 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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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 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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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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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I’m only going one way.
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