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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage.

We as human beings lower our vibration everytime we react with the emotional attachment of what is only suppose to be a lesson through life.

Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.

Mostly, we talk to impress. And sometimes we shut up to impress, too.

A man has no more right to an opinion for which he cannot account than for a glass of beer for which he cannot pay.

My daughters have strong personalities. I'm close to them but they don't really need me to advise them on how to manage their lives and they don't ask me to do that.

Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type

I think pressure's healthy, and very few can handle it.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.