More Quotes by Babe Ruth
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.
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.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.
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.
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.
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
Wealth is always attracted, never pursued.
