All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
BABE RUTHI 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.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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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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’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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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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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
BABE RUTH