Babe Ruth Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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 a person that never gives up.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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'm only going one way.

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

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.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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

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

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

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

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

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

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

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!

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