Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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