Quotes by Babe Ruth

“How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything Ive got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“Its hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

“Watch my dust.”

“I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”

“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”

“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.”

“If Id just tried for them dinky singles I couldve batted around .600.”

“I wont be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.”

“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.”

“In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.”

“People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.”

“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothings ever been as fun as baseball.”

“Dont let the fear of striking out hold you back.”

“If it wasnt for baseball, Id be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Its hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game