Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth Jr., better known as Babe Ruth, was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseballspanned 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. Ruth established many MLB battingrecords, including career home runs, runs batted in, bases on balls, slugging percentage,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth6 February 1895
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
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.
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.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.
I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?
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.
Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
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!
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
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.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.