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 in Kansas City.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.

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

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

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

Early morning does not mince words.

You can't always be a leading lady.

Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.

Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

I don't have to play for the Eagles.