Babe Quotes

Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk.

The Babe was a great ballplayer, sure, but Cobb was even greater. Babe could knock your brains out, but Cobb would drive you crazy.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

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.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

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.

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

I am a babe for a living.

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

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

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.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

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

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

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

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.