Babe Ruth Quotes About Baseball
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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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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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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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.
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What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.
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To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
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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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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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The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
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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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I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
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What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
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