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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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Choke
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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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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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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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He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
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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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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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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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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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 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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Hey man! Get away from me!
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