I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTHYesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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I’m only going one way.
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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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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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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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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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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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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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.
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