“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
“We want a nominee that's set, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg is set,”
Sam Brownback
“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
“Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.”
John McGraw
“We have a great front lineup with Barbara, Ruth and me, ... They couldn't hold any one of us. New York is a great team, but they just couldn't handle it.”
Cheryl Ford
“So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.”
Bible
“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.”
