“The only real game — I think — in the world is baseball.” Babe Ruth

I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big.
From “‘Keep Your Eye On the Ball’; No, Not Golf, It’s Babe Ruth,” by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 13, 1920), p. 11; reprinted as “How to Hit Home Runs,” in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 29
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I decided to pick out the greatest hitter to watch and study, and Jackson was good enough for me.
On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in “The Sportlight” by Grantland Rice, in The Daily Boston Globe (December 16, 1932), p. 40
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Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don’t play together the club won’t be worth a dime.
“Chapter X,” Babe Ruth’s Own Book of Baseball (1928), p. 135; reprinted as “Babe Ruth’s Own Story — Chapter X: Great Individual Stars Worth Little Without Team Play; Signs and How They Operate, The Pittsburgh Press (January 18, 1929), p. 45
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