Babe Ruth is one of the most quoted athletes in history. He was a larger than life figure, both on and off the field. His quotes about baseball are often humorous and insightful. What’s your favorite quote? Let us know in the comments below!
Best Quotes about Babe Ruth
- Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games babe ruth.
- I swing with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. Babe ruth
- Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.
- Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He’s upped daddy’s paycheck by to percent!
- Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.
- I don’t want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.
- In everything changed again. The Eskimo pie was invented; James Joyce’s Ulysses was printed in Paris; snow fell on Mauna Loa, Hawaii; Babe Ruth signed a three-year contract with the New York Yankees; Eugene O’Neill was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Frederick Douglass’s home was dedicated as a national shrine; former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson invented the wrench…
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” Babe ruth
- We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels – Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges – is in our own self-interest. That’s where the pool of talent is – and also of fans.
- The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.
- In, when Maris broke Babe Ruth’s record, he wasn’t intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.
- You can’t judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.
- I’ve had heroes in my life – Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.
- Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” Babe ruth
- I can’t recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.
- R “all ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.” Ve babe ruth
- When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth’s name it still blows me away. I’m still in awe.
- Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn’t born. He fell from a tree.
- It’s the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.
- People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don’t think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.
- Lucille ball says: you see much more of your children once they leave home.
- The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s pretty amazing.
- Don’t let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over, times.
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” Babe ruth
- Honestly, at one time I thought Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean, I wasn’t born until, and I grew up in Indiana.
- Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back. Babe ruth
- I don’t know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth’s record but I can tell you one thing – ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
- Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
- Why shouldn’t we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
- I don’t want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I’m not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn’t replacing Babe Ruth.
- When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth.
- Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. -Babe ruth
- Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like.
- Don’t compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I’ve been doing – keep taking care of business.
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Babe ruth
- Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn’t born until and I grew up in Indiana.
- Don’t try to tell Namath’s people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don’t even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
- A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don’t realize this, he’s a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he’d ground out to second for him.
- Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.
- The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
- For a long time, I’d been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit home runs in the same summer.
