Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948)
American Major League Baseball player from 1914 to 1935, named as the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings.
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
There's been so many lovely things said about me, and I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.
Words fail me. When he stood up there at the bat before 50,000 persons, calling the balls and the strikes with gestures for the benefit of the Cubs in their dugout, and then with two strikes on him, pointed out where he was going to hit the next one and hit it there, I gave up. That fellow is not human.
What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
Some twenty years ago I stopped talking about the Babe for the simple reason that I realized that those who had never seen him didn't believe me.
Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.