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Hey man! Get away from me!

Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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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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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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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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What did you say, Joe?
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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All I had was natural ability.
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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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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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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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I had it all and blew it.
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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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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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