"Less a biography than a baseball movie, "The Babe" is a muddy field of dreams fertilized with a whole lot of Bull Durham. Loosely based on George Herman Ruth's life, this shallow, soap-operatic treatment makes the man fit the myth. And bigger-than-life or not, he rattles around inside there like the prize in a Cracker Jack box."

"Apart from being a bad film in the first place, aside from being superficially written, aside from being shot with little sense of time or place, the movie portrays Babe Ruth as a man almost completely lacking in the ability to have, or to provide, happiness. Spending these 115 minutes with the Babe is a little like being jammed into the window seat on a long-distance bus, next to a big guy with beer and cigars on his breath and nothing to talk about but his next meal and his last broad."

"There Was Only One."

"Half of everything I own just went down the drain with the "Gladiators of Broadway." The other half is in the pocket of The Sultan of Swat, and he wants a raise and his own suites during road games."

"The first drop dead comedy of the year."

"You mean I'm not white?!?"

"I hear prison isn't so bad if you like it up your butt."

"Today, I threatened to shoot a naked woman with my erection. That doesn't happen every day."

"Well excusez-moi, monsieur hot shit!"

"We're in a warehouse, and you just hit a cow. I think we better back up."

"Did she say ship, or shit?"

"Captain Braddock: What's the story here, Gatlin? I got the commissioner crawling up my ass!"

"One's blind. The other's deaf. The girl's a killer. And they're in it over their heads."

"MURDER! The blind guy couldn't see it. The deaf guy couldn't hear it. Now they're both wanted for it."

"Richard Pryor – Wallace "Wally" Karew"

"Gene Wilder – Dave Lyons"

"Joan Severance – Eve"

"Kevin Spacey – Kirgo"

"Alan North – Braddock"

"Anthony Zerbe – Sutherland"

"Louis Giambalvo – Gatlin"

"Kristen Childs – Adele"