I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
In plain words
It is a joke with a point. His only superstition was just doing his job right, touching every base, every time.
Where these words come from
- 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.
- Attributed; earliest located citation is Kevin Nelson, Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1982) — a posthumous compilation (Ruth d. 1948), so held at likely.
- collected in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (Kevin Nelson, 1982)
- remembered as his joke on ballplayers' lucky rituals, his only ritual was doing the job right
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