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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

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
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Louder
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You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
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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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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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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's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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I had it all and blew it.
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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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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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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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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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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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