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.
BABE RUTHIf I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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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’m only going one way.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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