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Babe Ruth quotes

1895-1948 · Athletes and coaches

American baseball star and home run pioneer with the New York Yankees.

3 quotes, 2 traced to where Ruth said or wrote them.

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Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928), ch. 10
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
As quoted in Weird Ideas That Work (2001) by Robert I. Sutton
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A ballplayer should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
As quoted in Encyclopedia of Baseball (1951)
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