Quotes by Roger Maris - Page 1

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Chance
Home
Preparation
Hit
Home Runs
Runs
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You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Motivational
Running
Basketball
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I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Games
Privacy
Thinking
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Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Men
Break
Damn
Records
Want
Great Man Great Man
Great Man
Record
Maybe
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It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Giving
Obituary
Reviews
Finally
Obituaries
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It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Helluva
Home Runs
Runs
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It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Zinc
If I Could
Mines
More Money
Uranium Mining
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I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Arms
Player
Speed
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It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 homeruns... all it brought me was headaches.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Baseball
Fun
Headache
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As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Baseball
Doubt
Would Be
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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.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
New York
Cities
Kansas City
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Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Leadership
Sports
Baseball
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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.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Babe
Baseball
Damn
Records
Ruth
Trying
Ballplayer
Replace
Replacing
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Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
Roger Maris / Baseball Player
Baseball
Drained
Yankee Stadium
Yankees
Years
American League
Ballpark
Mental
Play Baseball
Stadium
Yankee
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Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.
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Running
Home
Records
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I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.
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Running
Player
Winning
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