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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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I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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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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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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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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 don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
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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 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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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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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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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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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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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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