I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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 is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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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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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
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I’m only going one way.
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