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.
BABE RUTHEvery Strike is one step closer to a Home Run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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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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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
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Let me show you how it’s done, Loser!
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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 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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