Babe Ruth Quotes - Page 2

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• Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

  Babe Ruth

  Running, Home, Steps

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• What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

  Babe Ruth

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

  Babe Ruth

  Yankees, Cases, Amnesia

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• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Next, Flagpoles

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Cemetery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Kids, Heaven

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

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• The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Real, Thinking

  Address to Fans on 'Babe Ruth Day' at Yankee Stadium, delivered 27 April 1947, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Sock, Ask Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Men, Differences

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Boys, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Singles

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• "I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

  Babe Ruth

  Cancer, Doctors, Dying

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• How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• That last one sounded kinda high to me.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Lasts

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• I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

  Babe Ruth

  Guy, Style, Saws

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• I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

  Babe Ruth

  Golf, Needs, Green

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• After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

  Babe Ruth

  Advice, Asking, Answers

  "Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball". Book by Babe Ruth, Chapter XIV, p. 199, 1928.

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• Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Games, Giving

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• I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

  Babe Ruth

  Wine, Beer, Thinking

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Good Luck, Lord, Said

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