Skip to content

The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit.

— Hank Aaron I Had a Hammer : The Hank Aaron Story (1990)

Another quote →

More quotes by Hank Aaron

I don't want them to forget Ruth; I just want them to remember me.

I'm not trying to make anyone forget the Babe; but only to remember Hank Aaron.

When he was healthy, there was nobody better than Campanella as both a catcher and a hitter. But I played with Del Crandall a long time and he was a match for anybody defensively.

There wasn't any pitcher I felt I couldn't get a hit off.

I like those lefties, but when you're hitting, all pitchers look alike. I don't care too much who's throwing or what he throws. When my timing is off, I have trouble; when it ain't, I don't.

All Hank Aaron quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Hank Aaron (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.