Roger Maris Quotes

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

I don't have the proudest moment in football.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

I’m sorry you asked me out, otherwise maybe I could have liked you.

In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

The future is just wasted on some people.

I love baseball, I really do. I always told my Dad, I'm not gonna make it working... I like to play ball too much. Which I did. I played hard. You gotta work at this game. You really do. And its fun doing it if you do it the right way.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

I was so frustrated with him. "I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.