I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTHBaseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, 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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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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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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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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