“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.”
Lou Gehrig
“I think (Ruth) accepts her fate, ... But she knows she's not happy and that's about it.”
Cloris Leachman
“He is incredible. No one can even stand in his shoes - not Babe Ruth, not anyone. He's in a league of his own.”
Jose Canseco
“You don't walk a guy and put the tying run on second base. I don't care if it's Babe Ruth.”
Brad Ausmus
“It's sort of like being traded for Babe Ruth or the guy who came out for Lou Gehrig, isn't it?”
Mike Johnson
“Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: / Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.”
Bible
“Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.”
Roger Maris
