Quotes from Babe Ruth

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

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

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

Paris ain't much of a town.

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

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

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

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

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.

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

You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.