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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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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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All I had was natural ability.
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He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
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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 thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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I had it all and blew it.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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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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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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I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
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