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.

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

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.

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.

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