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> [Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/don-t-quote-me-on-this-but-if-they-ever-manage-to-ban-beer/)

[Roger Maris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-maris/)

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## More by Roger Maris

> [Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/candlestick-was-built-on-the-water-it-should-have-been-built-under-it/)

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> [I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/i-feel-that-i-was-a-good-all-around-player-i-had-good-speed-a-good/)

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> [Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/don-t-quote-me-on-this-but-if-they-ever-manage-to-ban-beer/)

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> [Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/maybe-i-m-not-a-great-man-but-i-damn-well-want-to-break-the-record/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/i-don-t-know-if-i-want-to-go-to-new-york-they-ll-have-to-pay-me-a-lot/)

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> [It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/it-s-a-business-if-i-could-make-more-money-down-in-the-zinc-mines-i-d/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/i-never-wanted-all-this-hoopla-all-i-wanted-was-to-be-a-good-ball/)

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> [It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/it-would-have-been-a-helluva-lot-more-fun-if-i-had-never-hit-those-61/)

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> [It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/it-s-like-obituaries-when-you-die-they-finally-give-you-good-reviews/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/i-don-t-want-to-be-babe-ruth-he-was-a-great-ballplayer-i-m-not-trying/)

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> [Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/every-day-i-went-to-the-ballpark-in-yankee-stadium-as-well-as-on-the/)

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> [I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/i-think-the-most-privacy-i-had-was-when-the-game-was-going-on/)

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> [Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/now-they-talk-on-the-radio-about-the-record-set-by-babe-ruth-and-joe/)

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> [You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/you-hit-home-runs-not-by-chance-but-by-preparation/)

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> [It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-maris/it-would-have-been-a-helluva-lot-more-fun-if-i-had-not-hit-those/)

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