Babe Ruth Quotes

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

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

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

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

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

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.

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!

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

Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.

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!

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

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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

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

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

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

It is hard to beat someone who never gives up.

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

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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

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

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

Its harder to beat a person that never gives up.

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.

I'm only going one way.

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

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

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. -Babe Ruth

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

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

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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.

Paris ain't much of a town.

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Heroes are remembered but legends never die.

Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, 'It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

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.

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

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.