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.
BABE RUTHEvery strike brings me closer to the next home run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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What the hell difference does it make?
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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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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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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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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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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I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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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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It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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