A ballplayer should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
BR
Babe RuthAs quoted in Encyclopedia of Baseball (1951)
About Babe Ruth
American baseball star and home run pioneer with the New York Yankees. (1895-1948)
More from Babe Ruth
- 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
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.As quoted in Weird Ideas That Work (2001) by Robert I. Sutton
More quotes on purpose
- Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.Earl Nightingale
- Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.Norman Vincent Peale
- People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it.Simon Sinek
- Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do.Simon Sinek
- Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.Simon Sinek
- Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.Gary Vaynerchuk
Find more quotes for your industry, check who really said the famous ones, and turn any of them into a branded image.
Open Quote Finder