I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
BABE RUTHBaseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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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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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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.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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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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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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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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
BABE RUTH







