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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
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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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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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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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 don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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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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All I have is natural ability.
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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
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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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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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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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If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
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