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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
Rooster
Roosters
Yankees
Chicken
Chickens
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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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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If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
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All I had was natural ability.
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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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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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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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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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