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 RUTHThe 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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