What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
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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The 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.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I’m only going one way.
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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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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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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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