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 RUTHIf I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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 just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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