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 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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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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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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