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.
BABE RUTHThe 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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I’m only going one way.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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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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