Babe Ruth Quotes

• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
• "I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands."
• "I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco."
• "If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600."
• "If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery."
• "I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can."