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Baseball Quotes by Babe Ruth
- 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 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…
- 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.
- What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
- 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.
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- 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.…
- 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.
- All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
- Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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