Quote

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Mantle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
Baseball Player
Dallas
Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle
Games
Much
Life
Unbelievable
Baseball
Playing
Game
Sports

More quotes by Mickey Mantle

Image
I had it all and blew it.
Mickey Mantle
Image
A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mickey Mantle
Image
It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
Mickey Mantle
Image
You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
Mickey Mantle
Image
It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
Mickey Mantle
Image
I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
Mickey Mantle
Image
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
Mickey Mantle
Image
To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Those people don't know how tough that really was.
Mickey Mantle
Image
If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
Mickey Mantle
Image
He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
Mickey Mantle