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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
Baseball Player
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Mickey Charles Mantle
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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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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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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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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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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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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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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
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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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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.
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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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