Roger Maris Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Roger Maris:

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
~Roger Maris


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#eea8c488

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#7b7d9040

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
~Roger Maris


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#9523a62f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#b171d679

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
~Roger Maris


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#791d685d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#486b4f1b

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
~Roger Maris


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#a1712712

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
~Roger Maris


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#5a89a89e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/roger-maris-quotes/#33e743c5

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