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 like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.

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

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.

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.

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

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