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.
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It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.Roger Maris
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.
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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.
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Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.
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You win not by chance, but by preparation.
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