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.

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

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

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

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.

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

I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.