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

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.

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

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

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.

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.