Ruth Quotes

Ruth Quote of the day

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.

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

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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.

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.

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred

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.

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.

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."

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

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.

I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe.

Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.

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.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

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.

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

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.

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.

Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

(B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

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.

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.

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."

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

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.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

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.

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she starts working, she needs that.

I want someone to pinch me so I can feel something, anything. I'm sick of this numbness, of feeling so alone and outside of everything, but I know it's too dangerous to wake up." —Ruth Mendenberg

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.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

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?