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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

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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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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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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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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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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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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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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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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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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What did you say, Joe?
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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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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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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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I had it all and blew it.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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