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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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What the hell difference does it make?
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don’t really love their sport, they won’t work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives 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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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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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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