I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
BABE RUTHBaseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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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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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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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 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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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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