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

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.

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.

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

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?

You're always cursing, you're always praying and you're always making love. It ain't do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write.

If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.