I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
BABE RUTHTo my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
More Babe Ruth Quotes
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If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around 600.
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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’m only going one way.
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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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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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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
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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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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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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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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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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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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.
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If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.
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