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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

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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Boos
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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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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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