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