“It's sort of like being traded for Babe Ruth or the guy who came out for Lou Gehrig, isn't it?”
Mike Johnson
“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
“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
“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
“Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.”
John McGraw
“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.”
Carl Hubbell
“Among the four liberals [the others are John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Souter], Breyer is probably the one who most often strays from the reservation. He is the biggest example on this current court that justices can be unpredictable.”
David J. Garrow
