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Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

I don't think I'm a home run hitter. Most of my home runs are line drives. If I hit it, thanks God. But it's not the kind of thing that I think about. I just go out there and try to have a better season than I had before. Home runs are not in my mind.

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.