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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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Dallas
Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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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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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.
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I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
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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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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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