Babe Ruth Quotes Proverbs, and Aphorisms
- February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948
- American
- Professional Baseball Player, Hall of Famer, Sports Icon
Babe Ruth, born George Herman Ruth Jr., was an American baseball player widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in sports history. Rising to fame in the 1920s with the New York Yankees, he revolutionized baseball with his powerful hitting, setting records with 714 career home runs and helping popularize the sport nationwide. Originally a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, he became a legendary slugger known as the “Sultan of Swat” and helped lead the Yankees to multiple World Series titles. Though known for his larger-than-life personality and off-field indulgences, Ruth’s impact on American sports and popular culture remains unmatched, making him a timeless icon of athletic excellence and showmanship.
- “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
- “As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.”
- “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
- “I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.”
- “How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?”
- “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.”
- “Gee, it’s lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.”
- “Paris ain’t much of a town.”
- “All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”
- “Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
- “If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.”
- “Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.”
- “Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.”
- “I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.”
- “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.”
- “If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.”