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

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

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

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

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.

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