Top 100 Quotes About Babe Ruth: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Babe Ruth

#1. I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

#2. When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

Mickey Mantle

#3. Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

Sammy Sosa

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

Babe Ruth

#5. Even with the benefit of steroids most modern players still couldn't hit as many home runs as Babe Ruth hit on hotdogs.

Bill Bryson

#6. I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

Tommy Lasorda

#7. Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

Simon Sinek

#8. You can't judge a man by watching him live ... I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.

Sterling W. Sill

#9. The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Seth Rogen

#10. Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

Thomas Boswell

#11. A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

Artie Lange

#12. I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

Hank Aaron

#13. The Gotham boys have a first baseman, Louis Gehrig, who is called the 'Babe Ruth' of the high schools," wrote the Chicago Tribune.

Jonathan Eig

#14. Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

Don Mattingly

#15. Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

Waite Hoyt

#16. Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

Roger Maris

#17. People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

Rollie Fingers

#18. In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.

Mel Allen

#19. He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

Bill Dickey

#20. Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

Dizzy Dean

#21. Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Walter Annenberg

#22. Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

Lou Holtz

#23. Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

Jimmy Breslin

#24. Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Hulk Hogan

#25. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

Roger Maris

#26. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#27. Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

Effa Manley

#28. The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

Waite Hoyt

#29. I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

Home Run Baker

#30. Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

George Vecsey

#31. I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

Sandy Koufax

#32. The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

Rogers Hornsby

#33. Babe Ruth rose like a rocket. Through discipline. He also loved to practice.

Carol S. Dweck

#34. It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

Mickey Gilley

#35. The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

Mickey Mantle

#36. Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

Joe Dugan

#37. Baseball," he said. "Babe Ruth." Dixie Clay saw now that the boy wore a satchel honeycombed with rolled newspapers. The world was still going on, was it.

Tom Franklin

#38. The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That's supposed to be a criticism, but I consider it a compliment because I think being carefree on the course is one of the secrets to scoring well consistently

Fred Couples

#39. Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Joe DiMaggio

#40. Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.

Waite Hoyt

#41. 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

#42. If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.

Ken Griffey Jr.

#43. Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

Dan Millman

#44. Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

John McGraw

#45. Babe-Ruth raised her family with everything but money

Orzie Henderson Jr.

#46. Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Reggie Jackson

#47. Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

Marv Levy

#48. We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk?

Daniel Tosh

#49. He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out.

Casey Stengel

#50. We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

#51. On September 7th, after the Cubs dropped Game Three, the two teams boarded the Michigan Central together to embark on the twenty-seven hour trip, and Babe Ruth got drunk and started stealing hats.

Dennis Lehane

#52. Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

Jane Leavy

#53. Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

William Landay

#54. I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

Dick Schaap

#55. Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

Tris Speaker

#56. When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's
name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

Mark McGwire

#57. For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

Bill Bryson

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

#61. 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

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

Babe Ruth

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. You just can't beat the person who won't give up

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

#69. I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

#73. 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

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

#77. 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!

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

#85. 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.

Babe Ruth

#86. Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Babe Ruth

#87. I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Babe Ruth

#88. 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

#89. "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

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

Babe Ruth

#91. 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

#92. Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Babe Ruth

#93. 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

#94. It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

Carl Hubbell