Babe Ruth Quotes

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

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.

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.

I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

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

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

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

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

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

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

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

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

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

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.

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.

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.

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.

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!

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

I had only one superstition. I made 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?

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.

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.

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

I'm only going one way.

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

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

Paris ain't much of a town.

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

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

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

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.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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.

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?