If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTHI had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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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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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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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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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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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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Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.
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Paris ain’t much of a town.
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Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world,the kids, our national pastime.
BABE RUTH