Babe Ruth Quotes and Quotation

Farewell Adress

• You know how bad my voice sounds— well it feels just as bad.

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

• There's been so many lovely things said about me, and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
  • About [Ty Cobb] a notoriously vicious player.

• 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.

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

• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

• 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.

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

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

• I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.
  • About Yankee Stadium (April 18, 1923)

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

• 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.

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

• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
  • Variant: If I'd tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred.

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

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

• Just one. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
  • When asked if he had any superstitions. Variant: I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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

• 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.

• Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. 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.

• 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.

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

• Watch my dust.

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