40 Top Babe Ruth Quotes That You Must Share
Popularly tagged as the ‘Sultan of Swat’, George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth was an American professional baseball player from Maryland. This southpaw represented several franchisees such as Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Boston Braves in the Major League Baseball (MLS). This Baseball Hall of Famer is considered as one of the most prolific baseball players in the history of American sports. He produced record home runs, runs batted in, bases on balls, slugging percentage, on-base plus slugging and several other feats which still stand to this day. “The Bambino” was also renowned for his flamboyant lifestyle on and off the field, which included excessive drinking and womanizing and attracted media attention. He was also into social service and often visited orphanage and hospitals, helping the poor. The Sporting News ranked Babe Ruth as number one in their list of “Baseball’s 100 greatest players”. In the ESPN poll of 99’, Ruth was voted as the second-greatest U.S. athlete of the century only behind the basketball legend Michael Jordan. His motivational thoughts and sayings are still etched in the memory of many Americans till date. Let us browse through some of the quotes from this legendary American Sportsman.
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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 learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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.
I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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.
Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
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.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
You just can't beat the person who won't give up
Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
