Quotes by Baseball 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 baseball boys america 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 sock ask-me baseball I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time. Babe Ruth salary baseball play Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. Babe Ruth baseball sports years 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. Babe Ruth baseball relationship sports 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. Babe Ruth giving-up baseball sports I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout. Babe Ruth strikeouts crowds baseball 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. Babe Ruth growing-up baseball mean I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed. Babe Ruth cheer baseball Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do. Babe Ruth lonesome awake baseball All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. Babe Ruth baseball running sports I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me. Babe Ruth flagpoles next baseball What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball. Babe Ruth baseball success sports 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. Babe Ruth baseball running sports 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! Babe Ruth baseball games play What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did. Babe Ruth hoover baseball years The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball. Babe Ruth real baseball thinking A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff. Babe Ruth differences baseball men 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. Babe Ruth baseball two believe I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park. Babe Ruth baseball giving years «23456789101112»