Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Babe RuthAs quoted in Weird Ideas That Work (2001) by Robert I. Sutton
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
- 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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