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

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

"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."

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

"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."

"You hit home runs 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."