“I’m still the same as I was when I was a kid.”
“I’m only going to be 20 once.”
“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
“I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
“I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.”
“I’m a what?”
“I was standing next to a fence, looking at a ballplayer.”
“I’m no good in the morning.”
“I’ve never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I’ve heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.”
“If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”
“I’m just a kid at heart.”
“You can’t beat the game.”
“What the hell has that got to do with baseball?” (when asked about eating hot dogs before a game)
“Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.”
“I was the best they ever had.”
“I was born on a Christmas Day.”
“I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a home run on opening day of this great new park (Yankee Stadium).”
“I’m glad that I’ve played every position in baseball.”
“Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.”
“I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I’ve heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.”
“I’m a hunch player.”
“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”
“I was the best hitter, and I could run.”
READ MORE AUTHORS QUOTES:
“I thank heaven we had baseball in this world.”
“I was a bad kid.”
“I’m proud to have played for the Yankees.”
“I’d just like to retire a Yankee.”
“I only have one superstition: Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”
“I never followed anybody’s rules.”
“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”
“I’d play for a lot less.”
“The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.”
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”
“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
“All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it.”
Babe Ruth Quotes :
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
“I was just a regular kid.”
“I was a pretty good pitcher.”
“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.”
“I’d play for half my salary if I could play in a park like Yankee Stadium every day.”
“I always swing for the fences.”
“I’m not a fancy guy.”
“I was a big dumb kid.”
“I’m a good guy.”