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All I had was 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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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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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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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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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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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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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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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 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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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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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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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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