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

"The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball."

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

"I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park."
-- April 18, 1923, about the newly built Yankee Stadium

"I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime."

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

"Just one (superstition). Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases."

"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."

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

"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"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."

"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."

"If I'd tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred."

"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball...The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can."

"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy."

"Watch my dust."

"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder."

"All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill."

"Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime."

"I know, but I had a better year than Hoover."
-- Reported reply when a reporter objected that the salary Ruth was demanding ($80,000) was more than that of President Herbert Hoover's ($75,000).

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