Babe Ruth Quotes

• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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• Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

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• You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

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• Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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• Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!

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• I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

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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.

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• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

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  Tags in Athlete, Almighty, Man

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

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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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• Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

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• Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

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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 way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

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  Tags in Team Work, Greatest, Stars

• Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

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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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• Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

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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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  Tags in Athlete, Happiness

Babe Ruth (27)

Birth:	6th February, 1895
Death:	16th August, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

George Herman Ruth Jr., better known as Babe Ruth was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. He began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. He is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. He was one of the first five inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.

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