George Herman Quotes

#1. Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

Jane Leavy

#2. Oh, easy," said Janine. "It was George Herman. That's it. I won!" "Cheater!" I cried. "You looked! You must have looked!" "I did not," Janine retorted. "I just knew it." "Nerd!" Janine slammed the board shut and walked off in a huff.

Ann M. Martin

#3. It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." - George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Anonymous

#4. As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we struggle to understand it.

George Herman

#5. Striking out batters was easy.

George Herman

#6. The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

George Herman

#7. How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

George Herman

#8. I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

Angela Davis

#9. Every time you open the paper now, there seems to be another celebrity getting arrest for masturbation. First, it was Peewee Herman and then George Michael. If masturbation's a crime, I should be on death row.

Gilbert Gottfried

#10. I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

George Herman

#11. The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

George Herman

#12. I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm a mixed race, first-generation American.

Soledad O'Brien

#13. The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

A.D. Posey

#14. I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Robert Morgan

#15. You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

George Herman

#16. You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

George Herman

#17. Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close.

Kathy Reichs

#18. I like to live as big as I can.

George Herman

#19. Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary.

Mignon McLaughlin

#20. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#21. Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Truman Capote

#22. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

George Herman

#23. Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Paula McLain

#24. I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

George Herman

#25. I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

George Herman

#26. To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

George Herman

#27. Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there's a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman's can head off like that?

Herman Melville

#28. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

George Herman

#29. The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.

George Herman

#30. It is difficult not to write satire.

Juvenal

#31. What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

Cory Booker

#32. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,

George Hodgman

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

George Herman

#34. I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

George Herman

#35. Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

Ntozake Shange

#36. Among the roles I've played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.

Bob Gunton

#37. There are no roads west of Pohkara, which is the last outpost of the modern world; in one days walk we are a century away.

Peter Matthiessen

#38. Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

Herman Melville

#39. I hit big or I miss big.

George Herman