Babe Ruth Quotes:- Babe Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed “the Bambino” and “the Sultan of Swat”, he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.
Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its “first five” inaugural members.
Inspirational Babe Ruth Quotes and Sayings
“Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world.”
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“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
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“Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!”
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
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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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“If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.”
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“If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”
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Famous Babe Ruth Quotes
“Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.”
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“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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“All I can tell them is to 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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“All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”
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“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
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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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“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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“How about a little noise? How do you expect a man to putt?”
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“Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.”
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“Gee, it’s lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.”
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“Paris ain’t much of a town.”
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