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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
Natural
Baseball
Ability

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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 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've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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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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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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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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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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