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 RUTH(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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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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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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I’m only going one way.
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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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