Babe Ruth Base Quotations

That last one sounded kinda high to me.

The termites have got me.

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

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.

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

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

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

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

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

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

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