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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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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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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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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 never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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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've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
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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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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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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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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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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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