Babe Ruth quotation from Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball

This quotation is verified in the stored text, but an edition-specific PDF page or EPUB chapter has not yet been indexed.

he hasn’t, and I take it for granted that no young fellow will plan a baseball career unless he is assured of his mechanical abilities. But these rules are good always. Study the game. Remember that baseball is a profession as intricate in its own way as the law, or medicine. Don’t be afraid to accept advice. Other men can always give you good pointers now and then no matter how much experience you’ve had. And there’s always something new to learn. No one man ever knows it all. Keep physically fit always. It isn’t hard if you do it, but if you let yourself slip it’s doubly hard to come back. Most important of all—and this goes not alone for baseball but for every other profession—save your money! Perhaps you say I’m a queer one to preach that gospel. Personally I’m fitted, I believe, above most everyone else. For I’ve played both sides. For several years I spent my money as I earned it. I threw it to the four winds, without thought of any future day or any idea of saving. If I had saved from the start of my career I might have had a million dollars today. But I didn’t. I’m not sorry for what has gone before. It probably was good experience for a young fellow who never had seen the world or known anything about the world’s people until he went into baseball. But, boy, I’m glad I got wi