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

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

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

It's nice to be part of something that could grow into something else and be there at the beginning of it.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.