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Famous Quotes By Babe Ruth

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It's hard to beat a person that never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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

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It is hard to beat someone who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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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. — Babe Ruth

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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. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. — Babe Ruth

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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good. — Babe Ruth

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

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. — Babe Ruth

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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. — Babe Ruth

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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead. — Babe Ruth

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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. — Babe Ruth

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

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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600. — Babe Ruth

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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? — Babe Ruth

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Wealth is always attracted, never pursued. — Babe Ruth

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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. — Babe Ruth

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That last one sounded kinda high to me. — Babe Ruth

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Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you. — Babe Ruth

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You should always go to other people funerals, or they wont go to yours. — Babe Ruth

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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back — Babe Ruth

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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. — Babe Ruth

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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. — Babe Ruth

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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: Pick out a good one and sock it! — Babe Ruth

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"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?) — Babe Ruth

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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. — Babe Ruth

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Heroes are remembered but legends never die. — Babe Ruth

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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. He's the guy who made me a hitter. — Babe Ruth

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They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling. — Babe Ruth

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

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

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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

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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 ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play! — Babe Ruth

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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. So I gave up reading. — Babe Ruth

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Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run — Babe Ruth

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

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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. — Babe Ruth

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I'm only going one way. — Babe Ruth

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Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Babe Ruth

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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -Babe Ruth — Babe Ruth

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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff. — Babe Ruth

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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 point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges. — Babe Ruth

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Let me show you how it's done ... Loser! — Babe Ruth

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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. — Babe Ruth

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What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did. — Babe Ruth

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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? — Babe Ruth

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The termites have got me. — Babe Ruth

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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. — Babe Ruth

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It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up. — Babe Ruth

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You just can't beat the person who won't give up — Babe Ruth

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

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Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand. — Babe Ruth

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I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that? — Babe Ruth

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I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed. — Babe Ruth

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Its harder to beat a person that never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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

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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. — Babe Ruth

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Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, 'It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. — Babe Ruth

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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco. — Babe Ruth

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

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

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Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously. — Babe Ruth

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Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun. — Babe Ruth

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Paris ain't much of a town. — Babe Ruth