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

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

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.

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.

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

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.