Babe Ruth Quotes

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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.

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

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

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

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

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

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

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

I'm only going one way.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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