Top 207 Ruth Quotes & Sayings

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

Honestly, I love Ruth's Chris.

He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.

Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting.

I am in awe of Ruth Draper.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

I love being Dr. Ruth, so I have never thought of retiring.

I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

Tim Tebow has been on the bench longer than Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

I happen to think Ruth Wilson is jaw-droppingly brilliant.

If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself.

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

Other boys went to see Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth came to see me.

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

I could have been the next Babe Ruth. No doubt about it.

It is good to be Dr. Ruth.

Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe.

I feel like I'm the Babe Ruth of golf.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. "More than anyone will ever know.

Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.

We are going to try and turn Lord's red for the day as a testament to my wife Ruth, but more importantly as a way of increasing awareness and raising funds for the Ruth Strauss Foundation.

I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.