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Babe Ruth Quotes
"Never let the fear of striking
out get in your way."
"Yesterday's home runs don't win
today's games."
"You just can't beat the person who
never gives up.
"The only real game in the world,
I think, is baseball."
"Baseball was, is and always will be
to me the best game in the world."
"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either
the penitentiary or the cemetery."
"All ballplayers should quit when it
starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill."
"I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've
heard plenty of boos after a strikeout."
"I swing big, with everything I've got.
I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can."
"Just one (superstition). Whenever I
hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases."
"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."
"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."
"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!"
"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."
"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard
as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball...The harder you grip
the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the
ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss
big. I like to live as big as I can."
"Aw, everybody knows that game, the
day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day
October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right
now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot,
like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the
whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give
that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere."
"Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know,
this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys.
And after you're a boy and grow up to play ball, then you come to the
boys you see representing clubs today in your national pastime. The only
real game in the world, I think, is baseball. As a rule, people think
that if you give boys a football or a baseball or something like that,
they naturally become athletes right away. But you can't do that in baseball.
You got to start from way down, at the bottom, when the boys are six or
seven years of age. You can't wait until they're 14 or 15. You got to
let it grow up with you, if you're the boy. And if you try hard enough,
you're bound to come out on top, just as these boys here have come to
the top now. There have been so many lovely things said about me today
that I'm glad to have had the opportunity to thank everybody."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com
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