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Babe Ruth

George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.

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"Yesterdays home runs don't win today's games."

— Babe Ruth

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

"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

"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

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

— Babe Ruth

"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder."

— Babe Ruth

"Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it."

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

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

— 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

"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."

— Babe Ruth

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

— Babe Ruth

"Watch my dust."

— Babe Ruth

"Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games."

— Babe Ruth

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

— 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

"Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?"

— Babe Ruth

"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

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

— 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. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy."

— Babe Ruth

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