Babe Ruth

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

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.

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.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

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

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

Hotter 'n hell, ain't it, Prez?

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.

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

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

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

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.

Life is a game like any other; we just don't take it as seriously.

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

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.