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.
BABE RUTHI’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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