Babe Ruth

"The greatest innings are the ones where you come from behind."

"I never made excuses for my performance on the field."

"Success comes to those who want it badly enough."

"I believed in myself even when nobody else did."

"The key to happiness is doing what you love with the people you love."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

"Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

"If you're not doing an extra 25 percent more than your job requires, then you're not doing your job."

"Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games."

"The way I figured it, I was even with baseball, and baseball with me. We were through with each other."

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."

"I swing big, with everything I've got, and I hit big, or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can."

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and still be considered excellent."

"You've got to think big to be big."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

"A man doesn't need to be perfect. He just needs to want to be better yesterday than he is today."

"Never was anything great achieved without danger."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"The most important thing is to have fun doing what you do."

"Whatever you're doing, do it right."

"I owe a lot to baseball."

"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player."

"Keep your eye on the ball."

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it was a nice bat I would have gotten a hit."

"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery."

"The crowd doesn't boo nobodies."