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.
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Quotes by Babe Ruth
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Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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.
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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.
Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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.
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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.
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
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