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.

Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can’t use the word ‘babe,’ for instance. It makes me cringe.

Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.

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

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.

I feel like my Lion Babe look is an embellishment of my everyday look – it’s definitely more extravagant and more artistic.

Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose… But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can’t hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

I look like that in the morning: my hair’s all greasy – it’s not, ‘Hey, look at the babe of the band!’ I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties… it’s very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph.

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

I wasn’t even singing when we first started Lion Babe, so my voice has only gotten stronger.

They said Babe Ruth built Yankee Stadium and Bruno Sammartino built the Garden. It always was my favorite place.

People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you’re either an uber-loyalist babe, or you’re a rebel. There isn’t any grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn’t space in public debate for that.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s pretty amazing.

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

There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human flesh and named Jesus.

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.

I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral. I cop a fair bit of flack for going from ‘such a babe to such a boy.’

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.

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

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

Too bad integration didn’t come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That’s why, you look back, and – not to take away anything from Babe Ruth or some of those other guys – they didn’t play against the greatest ballplayers in the world.

I’ve had heroes in my life – Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

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

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

Well, I’m a Harley Babe.

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

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.

From the first album, Led Zeppelin was always going to be a totally new approach from what had gone before – whether it was approaching the blues or folk music like ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’: nothing existed like that.

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

When I did ‘Babe’ I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth’s home run record? No.

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

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.

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there’s a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It’s far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn’t be romanticised. They aren’t something you want to sign up to.

My dad is to professional wrestling what Babe Ruth was to baseball – he’s an icon. Working with him and having him around as I try to get this new character over with the fans has been a major help.

Babe Ruth was great. I’m just lucky.

Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat’s Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

I am a babe for a living.

For a long time, I’d been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

People were not ready to accept me as a baseball player. The easiest part of that whole thing, chasing the Babe’s record, was playing the game itself. The hardest thing was after the game was over, dealing with the press. They could never understand.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

It was a song I wrote for my wife as a present, never intending for it to be a Styx song. ‘Babe’ was a demo. The demo became the hit record, including all the background vocals, which were done by me.

They said you’d really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, ‘Oh, okay, babe,’ and I see it in scripts all the time.

‘Taste Buds’ is a food debate show and ‘Hey Babe!’ is just kind of anything and everything.

I’ve been doing theater for a long time, so that’s something I understand. I’m such a babe in the woods when it comes to TV and film. I’m still learning. It’s exciting.

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.

To be honest, I’m in love with denim. It hasn’t been my go-to Lion Babe look, but it’s very much my ‘everyday Jillian look.’ I am in denim every single day.

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

Fake eyelashes can instantly give me a more dramatic look and also help to accentuate my eyes, which are a focal point to achieving the Lion Babe look.

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.

I know what I look like. I’m not a babe who’s automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

Americans are so stiff when it comes to nudity. For me, I’ve always walked around the house naked. My husband, in real life, is like, ‘Babe, could you just put some clothes on! Keep the mystery alive!’

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.