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Mickey Mantle Inspirational Quotes (71)

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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
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I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
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The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
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I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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All I have is natural ability.
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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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