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

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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
Chicken
Chickens
Piece
Pieces
Better
Rooster
Roosters
Yankees

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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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 always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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All I have is natural ability.
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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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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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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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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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