I dont see pitches down the middle anymore – not even in batting practice. – Hank Aaron
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. Thats when youve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothings a joke to me. I dont feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. – Hank Aaron
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. – Hank Aaron
I dont feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. – Hank Aaron
The first purpose of clothes… was not warmth or decency, but ornament…. Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. – Thomas Carlyle