Babe Ruth quotes

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

Babe Ruth
  


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.
Babe Ruth



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



Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe Ruth


You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth


Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth


Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth


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.
Babe Ruth


Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
Babe Ruth


Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
Babe Ruth


I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth


Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Babe Ruth


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


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


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


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


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


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


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.
Babe Ruth


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


Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Babe Ruth


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


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



How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Babe Ruth



Paris ain't much of a town.
Babe Ruth