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

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one 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 wise to myself in time. From now on a part of my earnings each year go right down into the savings account. I don’t know how much longer I may be able to play baseball Perhaps for five or six years. Perhaps only two or three. You never can tell what another new season will bring. Here’s one thing that’s certain. I’ll play just as long as I can. It’s my profession, my life, and I love it. And when I’m through I will be able to retire and live the way I want to live—knowing that I have plenty to support myself and family for the rest of my days. And that’s my baseball story. Hereafter in thinking of baseball and baseball players I ask you to remember only that it’s a great game, worthy of the best you can give it. And ball players, off the field, are much the same as you—just as human, just as friendly, just as much interested in their own lives, their own affairs and t