Roger Maris

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

— Roger Maris

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

— Roger Maris

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

— Roger Maris

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

— Roger Maris

I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I…

— Roger Maris

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

— Roger Maris

I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers,…

— Roger Maris

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

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

— Roger Maris

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there…

— Roger Maris

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The…

— Roger Maris

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

— Roger Maris

Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely…

— Roger Maris

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

— Roger Maris

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

— Roger Maris

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

— Roger Maris