Roger Clemens Quotes

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.

I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.

I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.

Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I've finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.

I can always say I led off for the New York Yankees. It's an amazing feeling.

These are some of my awards - an Ivor Novello, a Variety Club Silver Heart, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. I also have a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and a street named after me in Brooklyn where I used to live.

I'm a Red Sox fan, but I still have a lot of respect for Mariano Rivera, who's the best closer of all-time.

Part of me feels it's better we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

People always talk about first-ballot Hall of Famer and all that stuff, but it doesn't really make a difference. Once you get in there, you're a Hall of Famer. It doesn't matter if you get in on the first, second or third ballot. It's the same thing.

There's a compelling reason why I belong in the Hall of Fame, but I understand the argument against me. My career didn't go like most, and I'm 100 percent fine with that because that's what resonates with people.

I want to be remembered as, if not the best, then one of the best players ever. Not just running backs - players.