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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too. -- Walter Annenberg
Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play. -- Joe DiMaggio
Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him. -- George Steinbrenner
I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference. -- Lou Gehrig
For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else. -- Nolan Ryan
And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy. -- Nolan Ryan
I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe. -- Christy Carlson Romano
Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth. -- Dizzy Dean
We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. -- Whitey Herzog
Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king. -- Dan Millman
He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw. -- Bill Dickey
I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth. -- Hank Aaron
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. -- Donna Leon
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." -- Billy Graham
Honestly, at one time I thought 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
He (Babe Ruth) was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out. -- Casey Stengel
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. -- John Piper
No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) 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
We'll put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' name, sure, as soon as we put one next to Babe Ruth's name. Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play? Excuse me, where is that asterisk? -- Daniel Tosh
Ruth and I are happily incompatible. -- Billy Graham
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky. -- Reggie Jackson
I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth -- Eva Ibbotson
Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do? -- George Bernard Shaw
I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth. -- Tommy Lasorda
Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree. -- Joe Dugan
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching. -- Tris Speaker
Why shouldn't he break Ruth's record? He's got more power than Stalin. -- Casey Stengel
Tim Tebow has been on the bench longer than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. -- David Letterman
Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times. -- Lou Holtz
The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing. -- Seth Rogen
The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record. -- Mickey Mantle
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. -- Brian K. Vaughan
We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. -- Whitey Herzog
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion. -- Elizabeth Berg
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet. -- Alice Sebold
All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience. -- Rita Rudner
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League. -- John McGraw
The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse. -- Waite Hoyt
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read. -- Fiona Walker
I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron. -- Hank Aaron
You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. -- Wes Streeting
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career. -- Simon Sinek
When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe. -- Mark McGwire
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. -- Robert Gottlieb
They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right. -- Tony Lazzeri
Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time. -- Hulk Hogan
All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James. -- Donna Leon
When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead. -- Kathleen Norris
It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now. -- Mickey Gilley
If I'm compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that's great. But I'm just going to go out there and be myself. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. -- Billy Graham
Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot. -- David Letterman
Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker. -- Walter Johnson
Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat. -- Effa Manley
For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality. -- Meir Soloveichik
And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives? -- Meg Cabot
Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth. -- Waite Hoyt
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When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there. -- Mickey Mantle
I'll not have my grandson subjected to the humiliation of his reading becoming public. We have to cope with this disgrace discreetly -- Grandma Ruth -- Brandon Mull
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in. -- Marcelene Cox
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. -- Jane Leavy
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
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. -- Rollie Fingers
For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer. -- Bill Bryson
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard. -- Alice Sebold
The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often. -- Rogers Hornsby
It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can. -- Joe Dugan
When Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was before us in 1993, she said that her standard was to give no hints, no forecasts, no previews, and declined to answer dozens of questions. -- Orrin Hatch
Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting." -- Rita Rudner
Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie. -- Judy Greer
I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed. -- Home Run Baker
When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth. -- Jarod Kintz
History has shown that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, in fact, dramatically change the balance of the court in many critical areas, such as abortion, the privacy debate expansion and child pornography. -- Sam Brownback
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. -- Patricia Cornwell
It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much." -- Frank Carson
Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole. -- Jane Leavy
Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. "More than anyone will ever know. -- Alice Sebold
In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction. -- Jack Ketchum
In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate. -- Mel Allen
Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent! -- Waite Hoyt
Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years. -- Winona Ryder
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there. -- Eddie Mathews
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. -- Dick Schaap
Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives. -- John Eldredge
Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character. -- Gregory Maguire
I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman. -- Eugene Jarecki
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there. -- Eddie Mathews
I always just wanted to be a movie actress, like Lily Tomlin or Ruth Gordon. I just imagined myself being in a movie, wearing stylish women's clothing the way I saw Amy Irving wearing it. -- Jenny Slate
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth. -- Roger Maris
My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did. -- Katharine Graham
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears. -- J. R. Moehringer
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Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. -- John Keats
When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world." -- Heywood Broun
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. -- Ronnie Spector
When I was younger, I read all the great food memoirs, by M.F.K. Fisher and Laurie Colwin and Julia Child and Nicolas Freeling and Ruth Reichl, and felt flooded with a sense of comfort and safety. -- Kate Christensen
Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing. -- Roger Maris
Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135) -- Kate DiCamillo
I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks. -- Ian Rankin
If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val. -- Holly Black
The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That's supposed to be a criticism, but I consider it a compliment because I think being carefree on the course is one of the secrets to scoring well consistently -- Fred Couples
A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him. -- Artie Lange
You must never check for a person's pulse using your thumb, or you'll feel your own heartbeat. Actually, I plan on doing that if I'm the one who's here when Ruth dies. I plan on giving her my heartbeat before I let her go. -- Elizabeth Berg
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off. -- Thomas Boswell
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. -- Mary Doria Russell
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived. -- Sterling W Sill
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. -- Sammy Sosa
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope. -- Henri Nouwen
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment. -- Billy Graham
Taken as a whole, the story of Ruth is one of those signs. It was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy. -- John Piper
Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like. -- Mark McGwire
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared. -- Waite Hoyt
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
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me. -- Elena Kagan
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. -- Jane Leavy
Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No. -- Monte Irvin
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy. -- Bill Bryson

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