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.
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 hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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I 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.
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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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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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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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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 the hell difference does it make?
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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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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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