Top 33 Quotes About Roger Maris
#1. Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#2. I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.
Jack Antonoff
#3. You have to be born with enough brainpower.
Donald Trump
#4. If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading ...
John C. Maxwell
#5. The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
Mickey Mantle
#6. I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.
Roger Maris
#7. Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
Roger Maris
#8. 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
#9. It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
Roger Maris
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris
#13. I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#14. 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.
Roger Maris
#15. In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.
Mel Allen
#16. I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.
Mark McGwire
#17. One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour.
Joseph Campbell
#18. 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
#20. I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
Roger Maris
#21. I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
Ted Williams
#22. Roger (Maris)
was a class act and I know exactly what he went through.
Mark McGwire
#23. Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.
Roger Maris
#24. The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
Mickey Mantle
#25. There's an old saying in the Two Rivers" Rand said dryly. "'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.'" Another said, "The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.
Robert Jordan
#26. Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - BEN FRANKLIN, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANACK T
Neil Gaiman
#27. 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
#28. It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Roger Maris
#29. It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris
#30. It is possible that we are the only persons,> said another robot.
Ken MacLeod
#31. 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
#32. Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Henry Villard
#33. Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.
Darius Rucker
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