All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
BABE RUTHDon’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.
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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 thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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