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 RUTHReading 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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