Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
George Herman Ruth Jr., better known as Babe Ruth, was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseballspanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB battingrecords, including career home runs, runs batted in, bases on balls, slugging percentage,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth6 February 1895
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.
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.
I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.
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.
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.
Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.
I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
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 I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.