A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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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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