Babe Ruth Quotes
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
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.
The way a ball bounces is directly related to the way the person throws it.
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
The only real game – I think – in the world is baseball.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
The way to get ahead is to start now.
I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big.
Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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.
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
You can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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.
The only real game, I think in the world is baseball.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
You can’t hit the ball if you’re thinking about all the bad things that could happen if you swing.
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.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
I didn’t mean to hit the ball so hard. I just swung the bat, and it just happened.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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.
I like to live as big as I can.
I swing with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
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.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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.
I like to live as big as I can.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
I didn’t mean to hit the ball so hard. I just swung the bat, and it just happened.
Baseball is the greatest sport in the world and deserves the best effort from those who play it.
It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
You can’t hit the ball if you’re thinking about all the bad things that could happen if you swing.
The only real game – I think – in the world is baseball.
You can’t beat the person who never gives up.
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.