Roger Maris Quotes
- You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.
- Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years…
- 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…
- I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.
- 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 a…
- I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
- It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
- Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
- 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…
- 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'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…
- 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 would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.
- Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.
- It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.