Babe Ruth Quotes

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Babe Ruth

Profession : Baseball Player

Birth : February 6, 1895

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

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Yesterdays home runs don't win today's games.

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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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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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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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