Famous Quotes & Sayings

Babe Ruth

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

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

Babe Ruth

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

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

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

Babe Ruth

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

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.

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

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

Babe Ruth

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

Babe Ruth

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.

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

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

Shane Robinson

We're looking pretty good and playing some error-free baseball and if we can keep it up, we shouldn't have too many problems.

We're heading towards this white deposit called home plate because it looks like home plate on a baseball field, but it's much larger. And we don't know what that is.

We're happy to be 6-5. We've turned the corner. The thing is, we were 2-5 at one time (after having) lost four in a row and were frustrated. We were searching for some identity. The kids turned it around. That's what is unique about baseball that you can't do with basketball. You have to do get after it the next day.

Billy Beane

Lenny was so perfectly designed, emotionally, to play the game of baseball. He was able to instantly forget any failure and draw strength from every success. He had no concept of failure. And he had no idea of where he was.

Let's fight together so this event won't be held every four years but rather every two, so the baseball world won't have to wait so long to enjoy this.

Leaving Boston was not easy. It was a high level of passion to win, a unique rivalry, a baseball operations staff which was a great, great place to work. That's what I need to learn here and need to recreate here.

Scott Anderson

Many of the upper level men players come from successful baseball careers and believe they are still playing in the major leagues.

Barry Zito

So I'm going to get some grief about this. I don't say a word when I strike him out, but I'm sure I'll hear about this.

She was a pioneer in so many ways in terms of integrating the team with the community, in terms of using her opportunities with baseball to push forward a civil rights agenda.

She was a pioneer in so many ways, in terms of integrating the team with the community. She's also one of the owners who pushed very hard to get recognition for Major League Baseball when they started to sign some of their players.

Dennis Quaid

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

Dennis Eckersley

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

Deborah Tannen

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

Dee Dee Myers

I'm a baseball freak.

Debra Messing

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

Elbert Hubbard

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

Edward Abbey

Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Edward Abbey

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Atul Gawande

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business...