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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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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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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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What did you say, Joe?
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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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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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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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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Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
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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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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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All I had was natural ability.
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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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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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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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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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