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.
BABE RUTHEvery strike brings me closer to the next home run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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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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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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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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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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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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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