Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.

I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I've accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.

I used to love to come to the ballpark. Now I hate it. Every day becomes a little tougher because of all this. Writers, tape recorders, microphones, cameras, questions and more questions. Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one. I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.