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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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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
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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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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 think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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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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All I had was natural ability.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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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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You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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