Babe Ruth Quotes

"Babe was no ordinary man...Ruth possessed a magnetism that was positively infectious. When he netered a room, when he appeared on the field, it was as if he was the whole parade. There seemed to be flags waving, bands playing constantly." — Waite Hoyt

Source	Author	Publisher	Date	Page
The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players	Ron Smith	St. Louis: The Sporting News Publishing Co.	1998	10

"I am going to ask for a figure in my contract for next season which may knock Mr. Frazee silly, but nevertheless I think I am deserving of everything I ask." — Babe Ruth

Source	Author	Date
New York Times		January 18, 1919

"Some 20 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." — Sportswriter Tommy Holmes

Source	Author	Date
Hall of Fame