28 Quotes by Roger Maris

This game [baseball] should be passed from father to son. You want your son to grow strong and be a man? Play catch with him.

We're just glad it's over, ... It's been a long process.

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.

We're too stupid to be open today ... come back when we're smarter.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.

You win 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.

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