Babe Ruth Quotes

 "You just can't beat the person who never gives up." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games." ~ Babe Ruth

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

 "It's hard to beat a person that never gives up." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Heroes get remembered, but legends never die." ~ Babe Ruth

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

 "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

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

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

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

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

 "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

 "Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand." ~ Babe Ruth

 "If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot." ~ Babe Ruth

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

 "A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Wealth is always attracted, never pursued." ~ Babe Ruth

 "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 is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it." ~ Babe Ruth

 "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

 "It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up." ~ Babe Ruth

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

 "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

 "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

 "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

 "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

 "What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs." ~ Babe Ruth

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

 "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run" ~ Babe Ruth

 "Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you." ~ Babe Ruth

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

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

 "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

 "That last one sounded kinda high to me." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun." ~ Babe Ruth

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

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

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

 "I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed." ~ Babe Ruth

 "Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder." ~ Babe Ruth

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

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

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

 "They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling." ~ Babe Ruth

 "The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball." ~ Babe Ruth

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

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