Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.
-Babe Ruth

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

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

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.
-Babe Ruth

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.
-Babe Ruth

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

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 wont be worth a dime.
-Babe Ruth

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
-Babe Ruth

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
-Babe Ruth

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