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.
BABE RUTHDon’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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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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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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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