Babe Ruth Quotes
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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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.
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You can bother me to autograph anything you want. When you quit bothering me to sign autographs, then I'll know I'm through. Slip me the old apple and a pen. And tell 'em to keep on bothering me.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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The one that I missed.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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To My Friend John Sylvester, Just a few words reminding you that I have not forgotten my sick little pal. Sorry I couldn’t get out to see you but here’s hoping this little message of cheer finds you well on the road to recovery. I will try to knock you another homer maybe two today. Best regards from your friend and rooter, 'Babe' Ruth.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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 they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
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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.