All Babe Ruth Quotes
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
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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.
Babe Ruth
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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.
Babe Ruth
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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
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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.
Babe Ruth
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
Babe Ruth
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Babe Ruth
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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.
Babe Ruth
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Babe Ruth
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