Quotes by Babe Ruth - Page 2

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Baseball
Hoover
Years
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I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Baseball
Hitting Home Runs
Swings
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Dirt
Mean
Umpires
Hit
Stands
Umpire
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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?
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Seen
Richer
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What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Success
Sports
Baseball
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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.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Beer
Drink
Thinking
Tobacco
Whiskey
Wine
Chewed
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Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Good Luck
Lord
Said
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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 / Baseball Player
America
Baseball
Boys
Six
Ages
Boy
Bat
Be Happy
Glove
Wearing
Swinging
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"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Cancer
Doctors
Dying
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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 / Baseball Player
Baseball
Believe
Checks
Forget
Two
Written
Pick
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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.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Running
Home
Sports
Baseball
Little Bit
Reading
Bit
Bad
Ballplayer
Hit
Eyes
Gave
Home Runs
Runs
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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 / Baseball Player
Ask Me
Baseball
Sock
Good Me Know
Good Me Back
Dugout
Except
Looked
Pick
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After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Advice
Answers
Asking
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I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Guy
Saws
Style
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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 / Baseball Player
Leadership
Sports
Basketball
Bunch
Individual
May
Play
Stars
Team
Teamwork
Together
Way
Whole
World
Greatest
Club
Determines
Dime
Plays
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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 / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Bed
Dollars
Drinking
Easier
Fifty
Fun
Giving Up
Promise
Thousand
Too Much
Earlier
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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!
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Baseball
Games
Play
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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.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Relationship
Sports
Baseball
Felt
Natural
Pitcher
Pitching
Strange
World
Mound
Natural Thing
Soon
Striking
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You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Baseball
Growing Up
Mean
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Baseball
Brother
Father
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Leadership
Sports
Athlete
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A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Men
Baseball
Differences
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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.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Running
Home
Baseball
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I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Cheer
People
Thinking
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A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Leadership
Sports
Strong
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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.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Baseball
Mean
Roots
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The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.
Babe Ruth / Baseball Player
Curves
Mean
Yankees
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