Top Ruth Quotes
I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
Dick Schaap
Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris
We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
Whitey Herzog
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Nolan Ryan
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I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.
Dick Schaap 
62% of people like this quote
Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
Carl Hubbell
57% of people like this quote
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris
56% of people like this quote
We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
Whitey Herzog
56% of people like this quote
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.
Nolan Ryan
55% of people like this quote
Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.
Don Mattingly
54% of people like this quote
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
Lou Gehrig
53% of people like this quote
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.
Elena Kagan
53% of people like this quote
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
Dizzy Dean
52% of people like this quote