Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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 don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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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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