Babe Ruth Quotes

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• I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
• What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
• Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?
• If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
• Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run
• I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
• Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
• 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…
• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
• Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
• Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.
• "I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
• I'm only going one way.
• Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
• It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.
• 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.…
• Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third…
• I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight…
• That last one sounded kinda high to me.
• The termites have got me.

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