Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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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’m only going one way.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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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.
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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.
BABE RUTH