Babe Ruth

"I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't got enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists, men who deserved a great following - and I have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

I'm proud of my profession. I like to play baseball. I like fans too......but I think they yelled too loudly and yelled for the wrong man.

Most of the people who have really counted in my life were not famous. Nobody ever heard of them exept those who knew and loved them.

I knew an old priest once........how I envy him. He was not trying to please a crowd. He was merely trying to please his own immortal soul......so fame never came his way.

I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base."
- Babe Ruth -