Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
BABE RUTHIf I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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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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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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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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