All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
- Babe Ruth Quote
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 Quote
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
- Babe Ruth Quote
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 Quote
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth Quote
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
- Babe Ruth Quote
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth Quote
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.
- Babe Ruth Quote
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
- Babe Ruth Quote
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
- Babe Ruth Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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