Babe Ruth Quotes - Page 2

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

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.

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

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.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

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

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

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.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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

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

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.

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.

The termites have got me.

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!

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

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.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

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.

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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.