What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.
BABE RUTHEvery Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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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’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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I’m only going one way.
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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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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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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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That last one sounded kinda high to me.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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