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

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

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.

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

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