Babe Ruth Quotes About Sports
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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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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Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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