The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
BABE RUTHIt’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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 hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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 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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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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 thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
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