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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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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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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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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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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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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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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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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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All I had was natural ability.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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