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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

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
Chickens
Piece
Pieces
Better
Rooster
Roosters
Yankees
Chicken

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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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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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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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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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 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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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