Babe Ruth Quotes
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.
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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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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 one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.
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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.
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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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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 game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.
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Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.
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If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
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I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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The termites have got me.
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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 had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
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What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
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Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?
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