Famous Quotes & Sayings

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Babe Ruth

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

Babe Ruth

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

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.

Sean Casey

We're playing real good baseball right now, ... The bottom line is we are getting real good starting pitching. If you get that and some timely hitting, you win ballgames.

Ozzie Guillen

We're playing lousy baseball on the bases, pitching, everything. There's no doubt about it. We really flat-out stink. It's not the same team I've been watching all year.

We're playing good baseball right now. We've just got to keep it up and stay consistent.

We're playing good baseball, but most importantly are learning about the game of baseball.

Johnny Damon

We're playing baseball now. We were definitely embarrassed the way we were playing the game earlier in the season.

We tried from late January to mid-February. We did two surveys of all the boys in high school and let them know if they were at all interested in baseball to be sure to come and sign up. It just didn't work. It was surprising to me.

Mike Dunn

We tried for 12 years and we had some great times in Macon, and we certainly developed some phenomenal baseball players. We just needed to take it one step further.