Babe Ruth Quotes

“The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.”

“I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.”

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

“I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.”

“I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.”

“Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“If I’d tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around six hundred.”

“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball… 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.”

“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 is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.”

“Watch my dust.”

“I’ve never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I’ve heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.”

“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.”

“I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world… the kids… our national pastime.”

“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.”

“I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.” Reported reply when a reporter objected that the salary Ruth was demanding ($80,000) was more than that of President Herbert Hoover’s ($75,000)

“I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a home run on the opening day of this great new park.” April 18, 1923, about the newly built Yankee Stadium

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from coming up to bat.”

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

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”