Baseball Quotes by Babe Ruth

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

— Babe Ruth

The termites have got me.

— Babe Ruth

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

— Babe Ruth

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

— Babe Ruth

“It's hard to bet a person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

— Babe Ruth

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

— Babe Ruth

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

— Babe Ruth

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't…

— Babe Ruth

I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down…

— Babe Ruth

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter…

— Babe Ruth

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game…

— Babe Ruth

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask…

— Babe Ruth

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father…

— Babe Ruth

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The…

— Babe Ruth

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get…

— Babe Ruth

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been…

— Babe Ruth

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October…

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

— Babe Ruth

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

— Babe Ruth

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

— Babe Ruth

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

— Babe Ruth

Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

— Babe Ruth

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

— Babe Ruth

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

— Babe Ruth

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

— Babe Ruth