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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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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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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 care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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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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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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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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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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You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
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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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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 had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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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