26 Most Inspiring Roger Maris Quotes (BASEBALL)

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Top 10 Most Famous Roger Maris Quotes (BEST)

As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again (61 Home Runs). As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back in the box and it's like the first time I ever saw a baseball. — All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back in the box and it’s like the first time I ever saw a baseball.

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. — You hit home runs not by **chance** but by **preparation**.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

I'm not a flashy guy. I don't like the limelight. I just want to be the best baseball player I can be. — I’m not a flashy guy. I don’t like the limelight. I just want to be the best baseball player I can be.

I'll admit it's a lot easier to try to be the best every day when you're in first place. — I’ll admit it’s a lot easier to try to be the best every day when you’re in first place.

There's always been a lot of talk about how I should be getting more money for what I'm doing. But I'm the type who doesn't believe in holdouts, or any of that stuff. — There’s always been a lot of talk about how I should be getting more **money** for what I’m doing. But I’m the type who doesn’t **believe** in holdouts, or any of that stuff.

I don't know how you would describe the perfect pitch, but when you throw it, you know it's perfect. — I don’t know how you would describe the perfect pitch, but when you throw it, you know it’s perfect.

The record is mine now. It's right there and no one can take it from me. — The record is mine now. It’s right there and no one can take it from me.

Hell, I just swing the bat. If it goes over the fence, good. If it stays in the park, good.

8 Roger Maris Quotes About Playing Baseball

“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

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

“I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted is 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.”
Roger Maris

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

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had never hit those 61 home runs… all it brought me was headaches.

“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.”
Roger Maris

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

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 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.

8 Deep Roger Maris Quotes that will Make You Think

“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

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc. — It’s a **business**. If I could make more **money** down in the zinc mines I’d be mining zinc.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye. — Don’t quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

They acted like I was doing something wrong, painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa or something. But the thing that got me was how everyone was ganging up on me. — They acted like I was doing something wrong, painting a mustache on the **Mona Lisa** or something. But the thing that got me was how everyone was ganging up on me.

“Now they talk on the radio about the record set by Ruth, and 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.”
Roger Maris