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Truth Baseball Quotes
First Nine of the Cincinnati (Red Stockings) Base Ball Club, 1869, by Tuchfarber, Walkley & Moelmann, 1869. Source: Prints and Photographs Division, featured in American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
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"I
keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't." "There
are a lot more important things in life than baseball. I just
haven't found out what they are yet" "Third
time's a charm is a lot better than three strikes you're out." "Slumps
are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get
out of." "I
would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I
hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field
and some of the things I stood for." "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 see
great things in baseball, it's our game-the American game. It
will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give
them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being
nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing
to us." "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." "I think
about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now
the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth
will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When
that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out." "Never
let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve.
Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray
when the sun shines." "Don’t
look back. Something might be gaining on you."
"To me and many
others, the Mariners are the icon of the state of Washington,
and I'm proud of my state heritage, and how the Mariners are representing
it. . . However, in a day, a week, or a month's time, we may be
called out to a place where we cannot hear the news of the Mariners
winning the World Series. . . even though we are all weary and
uncertain about the future, we are definitely ready to defend
our country. That's our job. For all of those who play sports
back home, keep doing your job well." "'This is America,'
my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young
fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad,
no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman.
I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees." "Fans don't boo
nobodies." "You can't steal
second base and keep one foot on first." "Character, Courage,
Loyalty." "There's nothing
wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the
adults couldn't cure." "All the fat guys watch
me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay.
Bring me another beer.'" "I had a better year
than he did." "I struck out with
two men on base. I was so angry, so frustrated, I turned and without
even thinking about it, snapped my bat over my thigh. The bat
split right in half. Afterward, reporters asked me if it was the
first time I'd ever broken a bat over my thigh. "I broke an aluminum
bat over my knee in college," I said. (I was just kidding)." "He hit the ball so
hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the
fence." "I am The Can, and
I am going to come right at you with my best shit, and if you
can hit it, I want to see how far Bo Jackson can hit The Oil Can." "Blind people come
to the park just to hear him pitch." "When they operated,
I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did—but it
was Mrs. Koufax's." "There are a lot
of shots in golf I can't hit, but I try to hit them anyway. The
frustration is not there, because I'm still learning. But I really
know how to do this. I'm not just hoping to get it where I want
it... Let the other guys do it half-assed." "When I was a
small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing
and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank
we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him
that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine
professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like
to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." "I didn't teach
you that. Catch the ball with your glove." "Just take the ball
and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. "Hey big mouth,
how do you spell triple?" "Hotter 'n hell, ain't
it, Prez?" "When I played
ball, I didn't play for fun. . . . It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles
had better stay out. It's a contest and everything that implies,
a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest." See 10k Truth's Links to Our Favorite Sports Columnists
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In
August 1948, Ruth died of throat cancer and lay in state at Yankee
Stadium, the baseball cathedral built on the fruits of his work.
Ruth's funeral took place on a day of such heat that pallbearer
and former teammate Joe Dugan said, "I'd give a hundred dollars
for a beer." The old pitcher Waite Hoyt replied in Ruth's
spirit: "So would the Babe." 
