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 won't be worth a dime.
- Babe Ruth

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
- Babe Ruth

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
- Babe Ruth

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
- Babe Ruth

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
- Babe Ruth

It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.
- Babe Ruth

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.
- Babe Ruth

Don’t be afraid to take advice. There’s always something new to learn.
- Babe Ruth

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

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.
- Babe Ruth

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
- Babe Ruth

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
- Babe Ruth

I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
- Babe Ruth

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
- Babe Ruth

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.
- Babe Ruth

If I’d tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around six hundred.
- Babe Ruth

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.
- Babe Ruth

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
- Babe Ruth

I’ve never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I’ve heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
- Babe Ruth

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world… the kids… our national pastime.
- Babe Ruth

I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.
- Babe Ruth

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
- Babe Ruth

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
- Babe Ruth

I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park (Yankee Stadium).
- Babe Ruth

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.
- Babe Ruth

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
- Babe Ruth