If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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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.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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It’s hard to beat a person that 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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