I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when…

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I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when… — Babe Ruth · Smartyfair

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

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It is a joke with a point. His only superstition was just doing his job right, touching every base, every time.

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How sure this is: 45% sureLots of sources credit Babe Ruth with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
What turned up: Attributed; earliest located citation is Kevin Nelson, Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1982) — a posthumous compilation (Ruth d. 1948), so held at likely.
Work: collected in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (Kevin Nelson, 1982)
Occasion: remembered as his joke on ballplayers' lucky rituals, his only ritual was doing the job right
Sources checked: en.wikiquote.orgChecked using claude-fable-5, 22 August 2026Attributed via the 1982 Nelson compilation, reproduced in the Los Angeles Times (March 1, 1982); unsourced variants circulate. Posthumous-compilation class — promotion path is a lifetime newspaper interview.