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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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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
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I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
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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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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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What did you say, Joe?
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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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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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Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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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.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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