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All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
Baseball Player
Dallas
Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle
Baseball
Ability
Natural

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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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Hey man! Get away from me!
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.
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You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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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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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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