Babe Ruth
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.Collection: Brainy
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Relationship
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.Collection: Sports
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.Collection: Best
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Home
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.Collection: Fear
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Paris ain't much of a town.
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.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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.
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.
Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.Collection: Success
Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.Collection: Motivational
It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.Collection: Motivational
A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.Collection: Leadership
Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.Collection: Games
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.Collection: Baseball
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.Collection: Cheer
A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.Collection: Weakness
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.Collection: Wealth
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.Collection: Inspirational
Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.Collection: Next
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.Collection: Giving Up
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.Collection: Baseball
I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.Collection: Baseball
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.Collection: Baseball
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.Collection: Good Luck
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.Collection: Baseball
I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.Collection: Running
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.Collection: Baseball
They started something here, and the kids are keeping the ball rolling.Collection: Kids
Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.Collection: Baseball
(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.Collection: Men
I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!Collection: Baseball
The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.Collection: Mean
What the hell difference does it make?Collection: Yankees