I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
BABE RUTHIt’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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 thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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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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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don’t really love their sport, they won’t work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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