You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.

Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.