Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Babe Ruth
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American baseball player Babe Ruth.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Paris ain't much of a town.
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.
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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.
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can 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.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
You just 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.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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.
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.
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 only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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.
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.
Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.
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!
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.
Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
That last one sounded kinda high to me.
Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.
Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.
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.
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 said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.
I'm only going one way.
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.
Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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.
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
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.
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 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.
It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
Related Authors
Bo Jackson Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Buster Posey Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Casey Stengel Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Charles Barkley Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Derek Jeter Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Eddy Alvarez Quotes
Cuban
Baseball Player
Gabe Kapler Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Hank Aaron Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Joey Votto Quotes
Canadian
Baseball Player
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Mickey Mantle Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Pete Rose Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Tim Tebow Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Yogi Berra Quotes
American
Baseball Player
Zaza Pachulia Quotes
Georgian
Baseball Player