Failure is a part of success.
I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.
What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.
I never thought we’d ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.
Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It’s like being married. The hardest part is to stay married.
The pitcher has got only a ball. I’ve got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
The thing I like about baseball is that it’s one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it’s your mistake. If you hit a home run, it’s your home run.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn’t throw it past me, none of them.
Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture?
I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.
I never doubted my ability, but...
Didn’t come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
I don’t want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.
I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.
Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it’s over, I’m going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.
I would like people not to think in terms of the 755 home runs I hit but think in terms of what I’ve accomplished off the field and some of the things I stood for.
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious.
I can’t recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.