Babe Quotations

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

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.

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.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

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.

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.

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.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.

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.

I wish I could do it again. I didn't have enough time to get it right. (on playing Babe Ruth)

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.

People were aware that Babe had his indulgences even back then. I think in some ways that endeared him to the public. He was a man of the people. He has his frailties and weaknesses just like we do. That was part of his appeal. To a great extent he was a big kid.

My favorite thing about Babe is that she is just headstrong. In a lot of ways, she's just me.

Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse.

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.

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.

Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record. We don't celebrate anybody the second or third time in.

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.

I don't think he thought there were any players today that were better than Babe Ruth, the old-timers he played with,

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.

He could have Babe Ruth hitting behind him, ... and they'd still walk him.

He is incredible. No one can even stand in his shoes - not Babe Ruth, not anyone. He's in a league of his own.

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.

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.

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.

Junior Babe Ruth is what you went into after Little League. It was pretty much the bridge from Little League to high school.

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.

It feels like I'm hitting in front of Babe Ruth. It's impressive.

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.

We have an outstanding freshman class this year. They have come through the ranks together in Babe Ruth and were very successful.

We hate the guy. He should've retired this year and saved face. Babe Ruth has to be turning over in his grave. Hank Aaron can't be real happy about this, either.

The Babe is here. Who's coming in second?

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

If she were a President, she'd be Babe-raham Lincoln!

We're excited about showcasing the Babe to the whole area. Both of these should be great events.

We were very successful when we hosted a state tournament. Babe Ruth gave us a shot to host a regional tournament, but we had to put in a larger fence on our field.

You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.

True Love has many forms. But my true love is her...and her name is B.D.C she is an amazing girl who i can connect with on many levels. She is a girl who i can tell everything to and not feel embarrassed about my flaws she can see through my imperfections and find me perfect the way i am and i can do the same with her i love her and if my love had to be compared to some sort of size on earth it wouldn't be compared to anything because my love for her is as big as the universe. I love you babe

You have to be Lance Armstrong and Babe Ruth.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home run record across the country.

Baseball is the first of our national team sports. It is the game of memory from when we are children, not only in terms of learning how many home runs Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron hit, but in remembering the score of the game our dads first took us to or where we made that catch in center field that we still can't believe.

The team that struggles on the road or the one that uses the light in center field? Something's strange. They don't play so good on the road, and at home everybody's Babe Ruth.

Perhaps for one night, ... I reached back and achieved that level of the overrated superstar. Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Sometimes people don't realize how much money it costs to run a Babe Ruth league. Insurance is $5,000 a year alone.

Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.

Babe Ruth is back! The greatest WBC hitter of all-time!

Babe Ruth remains the standard by which all baseball players are graded. He was arguably the game's first great celebrity.

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.

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.

They talk about Babe Ruth like he's got the home run record. He ain't the home run king. He's a good player, but he's in second place.

They used to say when I was a kid, 'Well, he's a Babe Ruth.' Any kid my age who hit a home run they would say 'Wow, he's a Babe Ruth' - in the Dominican. I didn't hear people say 'He's a Hank Aaron.' There's something mystic about the Babe, the name. ... Santa Claus.

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

People think that my personality can be reduced to what?s in the songs on Hey Babe and it?s not true. But people don?t realize that.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

Everything we do is so different, you derive different pleasures from each one. But for a long time, my favorite was our documentary on Babe Ruth. To be able to work on a project on a person who was such a big name during your childhood, that was special.

This book is about a real-life female baseball player who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

This is probably the most notable one -- Babe Ruth.

I loved the thrill of the race. I didn't lose very often. I won 35 out of 36 races in 1964. Drag News Magazine called me 'the Babe Ruth of drag racing' in January 1965. I was undefeated for two years or more.

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.

I started in that league so I always helped out there. We've grown tremendously and I'm very proud of that. In this area, Babe Ruth has become the steppingstone to high school baseball.

It's impressive. Since I've been here he's started out slow. This year he's come out racking. I'm happy because I'm going to get pitches to hit. I'm hitting in front of Babe Ruth. I haven't seen that many balls hit that hard. I was standing on second base (on homer No. 2) and I thought it was doing to be a double. How that got out is beyond me.

They can say what they want, but there's no way they would launch an investigation unless Barry Bonds was not about to break Babe Ruth's record.

It was like Babe Ruth pointing to the fence before the home run.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

You know the amazing thing? I love Henry Aaron . I think he's a wonderful guy and a great credit for baseball. To break Babe Ruth's record he went to bat 2,000-some more times than Ruth. When you look at it that way you see how great Ruth was. Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him. Look at him. They talk about steroids. Nobody can argue he had steroids. He just ate. He was a great one.

Ed and John are the Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth of animation. They both possess the balance that is needed, John being the creative fountain and Ed being not only the technological genius but a managerial one as well.

It's sort of like being traded for Babe Ruth or the guy who came out for Lou Gehrig, isn't it?

You don't walk a guy and put the tying run on second base. I don't care if it's Babe Ruth.

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

We weren't dumb enough to trade Babe Ruth,

It looks like Barry Bonds will pass Babe Ruth any day now. He only has five more pounds to go.

They have made me look a total babe on the front

I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit. This is the greatest ball club a man could manage.

He can hit. I don't care if he can't run a lick. Let him hit home runs and do the whole Babe Ruth thing.

If he had had a chance to play Little League, high school, Babe Ruth and so on, there is no telling where he could be right now. His legs alone make him Major League-quality.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

Nice tackle, babe." Ranger

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Desi, babe. Still playing your little games, I see. Now why don't you be a good Daimon and show yourself to me? (Kyrian)

You don't call Acheron 'babe.' (Valerius) You don't call Acheron 'babe' because...well, that's just sick. But I call him 'babe' all the time. (Tabitha)

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

I'm not a period babe. Not at all.

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

I am a babe for a living.

Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

But you don't belong here! You're dead!" I sobbed against his chest. "Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you.

Good loving is hard to find, you got lucky babe, when I found you.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.