128 Quotes by Hank Aaron

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don’t owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

I am very proud to be an American. This country has so much potential, I’d just like to see things better, or whatever, and I think it will be.

I can’t recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.

Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It’s like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.

If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I’d be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious.

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it’s over, I’m going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

I’m sure glad this isn’t my home ball park.