Best Babe Ruth Quotes
1- “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
2- “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.” ~ Babe Ruth
3- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ~ Babe Ruth
4- “Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.” ~ Babe Ruth
5- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
6- “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” ~ Babe Ruth
7- “Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.” ~ Babe Ruth
8- “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” ~ Babe Ruth
9- “It’s hard to beat a person that never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth
10- “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
11- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
12- “Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?” ~ Babe Ruth
13- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
14- “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
15- “Life is a game like any other; we just don’t take it as seriously.” ~ Babe Ruth
16- “I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.” ~ Babe Ruth
17- “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
18- “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
19- “It’s hard to beat somebody when they don’t give up.” ~ Babe Ruth
20- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
21- “I’d play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.” ~ Babe Ruth
22- “To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.” ~ Babe Ruth
23- “Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.” ~ Babe Ruth
24- “Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run” ~ Babe Ruth
25- “Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.” ~ Babe Ruth
26- “If you want to hit home runs, you’ve go to swing a lot.” ~ Babe Ruth
27- “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
28- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
29- “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
30- “What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.” ~ Babe Ruth
31- “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” ~ Babe Ruth
32- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
33- “If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.” ~ Babe Ruth
34- “I don’t need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?” ~ Babe Ruth
35- “A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.” ~ Babe Ruth
36- “I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.” ~ Babe Ruth
37- “(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.” ~ Babe Ruth
38- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
39- “Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.” ~ Babe Ruth
40- “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.” ~ Babe Ruth
41- “Let me show you how it’s done… Loser!” ~ Babe Ruth
42- “That last one sounded kinda high to me.” ~ Babe Ruth
43- “Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.” ~ Babe Ruth
44- “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
45- “I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.” ~ Babe Ruth
46- “I’ve never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I’ve heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.” ~ Babe Ruth
47- “What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.” ~ Babe Ruth
48- “Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.” ~ Babe Ruth
49- “All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.” ~ Babe Ruth
50- “Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.” ~ Babe Ruth
