20 Babe Ruth Quotes on Baseball

Babe Ruth quotes on baseball

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

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

4. Yes, he's a prick, but he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit!

6. 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.

9. I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me.

12. I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

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

18. I only have one: whenever I hit a home run I make certain to touch all four bases.

19. After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: 'Pick out a good one and sock it!'

20. 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.

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

24. Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

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

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

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

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

31. 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.

33. Words fail me. When he stood up there at the bat before 50,000 persons, calling the balls and the strikes with gestures for the benefit of the Cubs in their dugout, and then with two strikes on him, pointed out where he was going to hit the next one and hit it there, I gave up. That fellow is not human.

34. Babe's interviewer interrupted to point the hole in which Babe put himself Saturday when he pointed out the spot he intended hitting his home run and asked the Great Man if he realized how ridiculous he would have appeared if he had struck out? 'I never thought of it,' said the Great Man. He simply had made up his mind to hit a home run and he did.

37. I can't honestly say that I appreciate the way in which he [Ruth] changed baseball, but he was the most natural and unaffected man I ever knew. God, how I miss him.