Babe Ruth

Athlete

1895-02-06 – 1948-08-16

Babe Ruth was an American baseball player whose power hitting transformed Major League Baseball. He is regarded as one of the greatest sports figures in U.S. history.

Quotes by Babe Ruth

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!
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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
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Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!
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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
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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.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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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.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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