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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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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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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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Hey man! Get away from me!
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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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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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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I had it all and blew it.
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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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