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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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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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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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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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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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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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