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

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.

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

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

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

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