Bill Dickey Quotes

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

Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.

He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

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

I patterned myself after Reggie Jackson. I wanted to have that same swing and hit some homeruns. When I was down in A-ball, I was trying to be Reggie Jackson and I was striking out all the time. And I was like, 'This isn't the way Reggie is doing it, so I got to change.'

Jimmy Foxx could hit me at midnight with the lights out.

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

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

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

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

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

There's absolutely no comparisons to me or anyone else to Willie Mays. Willie Mays, he's the greatest baseball player of all time.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

Everybody believed you had to have a big piece of lumber and then muscle the ball over the fence. But by the time I and Hank Aaron - another guy who did it with his wrists - were through, there were a lot of guys ordering light bats and playing handball.

I'm not a bunt guy, I'm a home run guy.

I could have been the next Babe Ruth. No doubt about it.