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 RUTHBaseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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