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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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Baseball
Away
Men

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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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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 lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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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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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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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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