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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
Baseball
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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
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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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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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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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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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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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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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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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