123 Quotes by Babe Ruth

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me – all this I owe to the game of baseball.

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.

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 it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

I’ve never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I’ve heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

I’d give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, ‘It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.