I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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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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 didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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