A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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 hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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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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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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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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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I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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