Zitate und Sprüche von Babe Ruth

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.

If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

So the guy who shot Gadhafi was wearing a Yankees cap. Did you see that? If he'd had a Boston Red Sox hat on he probably would have missed.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.

In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 - the Impossible Dream season - that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.

I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew up with was constantly the underdog but managed to prevail.

What do Marylanders call their ex-girlfriends?
Old Bay.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Maryland - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.