What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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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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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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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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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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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’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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