21 Babe Ruth Quotes on Sports

Babe Ruth quotes on sports

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!

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

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.

8. If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred!

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

10. I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball. In boxing, your fist usually stops when you hit a man, but its possible to hit so hard that your fist doesn't stop. I try to follow through in the same way. 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.

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

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

17. I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

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.

23. 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.

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.

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

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.

35. He wasn't a baseball player. He was a worldwide celebrity, an international star, the likes of which baseball has never seen since.