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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.

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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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
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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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All I had was natural ability.
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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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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 biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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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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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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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What did you say, Joe?
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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