I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
BABE RUTHEvery strike brings me closer to the next home run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
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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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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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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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A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
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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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I’m only going one way.
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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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I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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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