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

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.

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.

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

Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind of behind-the-scene role in many world issues.

I'm not running for canonisation.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.