Babe ruth quotes

What the hell difference does it make?

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.

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.

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

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

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.

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

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

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.

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

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

The termites have got me.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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

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.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

Paris ain't much of a town.

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

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

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!

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.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

I'm only going one way.

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.

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!

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

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

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.

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.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

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.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.

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.

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.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

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

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.