More Quotes by Babe Ruth
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
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.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.