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I had it all and blew it.

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
Blew
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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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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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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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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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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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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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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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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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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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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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All I have is natural ability.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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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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All I had was natural ability.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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