Babe Ruth Quotes - Page 2

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• Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Love You, Games

  22 Copy quote

• Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

  Babe Ruth

  Running, Home, Steps

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• That last one sounded kinda high to me.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Lasts

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Kids, Heaven

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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

  Baseball, Men, Differences

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• Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

  Babe Ruth

  Yankees, Cases, Amnesia

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

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Cemetery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Baseball, Boys, America

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Years, Giving

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

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Singles

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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

  Cancer, Doctors, Dying

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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

  Baseball, Sock, Ask Me

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Relationship, Sports, Baseball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Guy, Style, Saws

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• What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

  Babe Ruth

  Running, Home, Thinking

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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

  Advice, Asking, Answers

  "Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball". Book by Babe Ruth, Chapter XIV, p. 199, 1928.

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• I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

  Babe Ruth

  Golf, Needs, Green

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• The termites have got me.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball

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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

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

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• Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Games, Giving

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• How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. 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

  Baseball, Running, Home

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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

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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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.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Brother, Father

  "Baseball as I Have Known It". Book by Fred Lieb, p. 154, 1977.

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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

  Good Luck, Lord, Said

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