I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
BABE RUTHParis ain’t much of a town.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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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 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.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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What the hell difference does it make?
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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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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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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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don’t make any difference if it’s baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It’s business, I tell you. There ain’t no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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