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. — Roger Maris Copy Share Image
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. — Roger Maris Copy Share Image
I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield. — Roger Maris Copy Share
Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye. — Roger Maris Copy Share
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… — Roger Maris Copy Share
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc. — Roger Maris Copy Share
I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in… — Roger Maris Copy Share
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches. — Roger Maris Copy Share
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… — Roger Maris Copy Share
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six… — Roger Maris Copy Share
Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine.… — Roger Maris Copy Share
It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs. — Roger Maris Copy Share
