Quotes from Babe Ruth

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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

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

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

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.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

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

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

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.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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

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

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.

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

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

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!