Babe Quote by Daniel Tosh

There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our name.

— Eddie Griffin

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

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

— Hank Aaron

Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason…

— Hank Aaron

“It wasn’t until 1959 that the Red Sox finally joined the rest of the major leagues and brought up a black player from the…

— Ben Bradlee Jr

I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

— Hank Aaron

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

(Barry) Bonds' records must remain part of baseball's history. His hits happened. Erase them and there will be discrepancies in baseball's bookkeeping about the…

— George Will

When people put my name next to (Babe) Ruth's name it still blows me away. I'm still in awe.

— Mark McGwire

We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major…

— Louis Farrakhan

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who…

— Jackie Robinson

Anybody I have spoken to who has held a record says 'Records are meant to be broken.' They get excited when somebody has an…

— Christian Coleman