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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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
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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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I had it all and blew it.
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A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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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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All I have is natural ability.
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All I had was natural ability.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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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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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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