Babe Ruth Quotes

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

(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

The termites have got me.

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

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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.

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

What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs.

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

Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

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

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

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.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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.

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

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

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.

They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.

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 play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

What the hell difference does it make?