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

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 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.

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.

Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

I feel that when you are a world champion, your title has to be taken away from you.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.