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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.

Babe Ruth

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Play Sports Success Teamwork
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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Home Myself Run Sports Thinking
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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Baseball Relationship Sports
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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Baseball Business Difference Forget Men Money People
Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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Home Run Sports Step
Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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Awake Baseball Lonely Sports
Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Ability Myself Yourself
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Attraction Prosperity Pursue Wealth
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Home Oneself Run Sports Touch
I’m only going one way.
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One Way Stupidity
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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Dirt Mean Myself Umpires
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Baseball Change Sports
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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Control Learning Weakness
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.
BABE RUTH

Anger Baseball Death Family Father Injury Myself
Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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Advice Baseball Motivational
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
BABE RUTH

Game Gratitude Sport Success
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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Baseball Game Grow Up Man Nation
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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Baseball Fear Success
I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?
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Believe Home Running Yourself
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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Athlete Hero Motivational Sports
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.
BABE RUTH

Believe Forget Sports Writing Yourself
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
BABE RUTH

Alcohol Beer Thinking Wine Young
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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Baseball Goodness Reading Run Sports
Paris ain’t much of a town.
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Opinion Paris Place
If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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Baseball Myself Sports
They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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Kids Sports Start

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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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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