Babe Ruth Quotes & Sayings

#1. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

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#2. All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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#3. Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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#4. 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!

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

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

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. You just can't beat the person who won't give up

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#10. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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#11. Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.

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#12. They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

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#13. 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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#14. How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

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

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#16. Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back

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#17. 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.

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#18. Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

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#19. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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#20. Its harder to beat a person that never gives up.

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#21. 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!

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

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#23. It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

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#24. Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

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#25. Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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#26. Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

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#27. That last one sounded kinda high to me.

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#28. Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

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#29. 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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#30. Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

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#31. 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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#32. Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

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

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#34. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.

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#35. 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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#36. Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

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#37. 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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#38. Paris ain't much of a town.

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#39. I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

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#40. Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

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

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#43. It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

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#44. It is hard to beat someone who never gives up.

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#45. 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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#46. I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

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#47. Let me show you how it's done ... Loser!

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#48. You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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#49. The termites have got me.

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

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#51. 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.

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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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.

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