Quotes about babe
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You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you...all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them. —Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace Brian Jacques
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Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat. Effa Manley
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Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference. Jimmy Breslin
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I wish I could do it again. I didn't have enough time to get it right. (on playing Babe Ruth) John Goodman
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You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong Bob Dylan
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The only number I care about is Babe Ruth's. Because as a left-handed hitter, I wiped him out. That's it. And in the baseball world, Babe Ruth's everything, right? I got his slugging percentage and I'll take his home runs and that's it. Don't talk about him no more. Barry Bonds
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No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. Lefty Gomez
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If it wasn't for the person we are here to honor today, Babe Ruth Baseball would not be what it is in Lebanon, Missouri, ... Glenn Drake Field.
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He is incredible. No one can even stand in his shoes - not Babe Ruth, not anyone. He's in a league of his own. Jose Canseco
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I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance, ... If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan. They changed the face of sports. But I voted purely on what I considered to be athletic ability, and if I had anything in the back of my mind it was, 'If you put these guys on a field and they played each other in 20 sports, who would win the most?' I think Jim Brown would win the most, and I think Chamberlain would be awfully close. Dick Schaap
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I think it's because of the controversy that's been around Barry lately and also because Babe is an icon in baseball and America. There's a lot of things involved. Omar Vizquel
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It feels like I'm hitting in front of Babe Ruth. It's impressive. Bobby Crosby
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I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit. Casey Stengel
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I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD. William Garrison
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Junior Babe Ruth is what you went into after Little League. It was pretty much the bridge from Little League to high school. Tom Reilly
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People are going to be looking forward. Unless something tragic happens to Barry Bonds next year, he will break Babe Ruth's record at 714.
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Our 2005 season was excellent. Several of our teams excelled in post season play, including winning the state of Nevada title in the Babe Ruth division.
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I don't think he thought there were any players today that were better than Babe Ruth, the old-timers he played with, Al Lopez
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Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse. Lord Byron
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Second place wouldn't be that important, except in this case second place is held by Babe Ruth, who is the central figure in baseball history. He is more like Paul Bunyan. He's a mythical figure. Passing Babe Ruth is a big deal, but not because he's in second place. John Thorne
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The Babe is here. Who's coming in second? Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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My favorite thing about Babe is that she is just headstrong. In a lot of ways, she's just me.
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Now that we know that, you can see why these teams are so good. I don't know that you're ever going to see a New England team win one of these titles again. I don't know that Babe Ruth in Massachusetts is going to change, especially with the weather. Jack Quinn
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Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana. Don Mattingly
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The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy. Tris Speaker
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. Abraham Lincoln
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The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the great city that fascinated and horrified the Biblical writers, people of different races and languages, drawn together in pursuit of wealth, tried for the first time to live together - and failed. Neil MacGregor
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We're excited about showcasing the Babe to the whole area. Both of these should be great events.
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Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous. Waite Hoyt
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Babe was a wonderful person. He was just a big kid who loved the limelight. If 500 children were waiting for his autograph, he'd stand there and sign for each one.
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Babe Ruth's orphanage, St. Mary's, still stands outside of Baltimore, and although it's under another name, you can walk on the spot where the Babe first played and stand where he was photographed wearing that catchers mitt on the wrong hand. Fred Willard
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Babe Ruth remains the standard by which all baseball players are graded. He was arguably the game's first great celebrity.