Babe Ruth Quotes

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• What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
• 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…
• A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak…
• Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
• 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…
• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
• You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
• Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
• 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.…
• Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
• Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
• I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
• 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.…
• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
• 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.
• 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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