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 don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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 changes through the years. It gets milder.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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 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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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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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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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
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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.
BABE RUTH