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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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Pete
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Hitting
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Dresses
Rose
Played
Wear

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We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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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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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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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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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
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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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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.
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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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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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What did you say, Joe?
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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