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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

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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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Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
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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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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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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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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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I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
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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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Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
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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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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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Hey man! Get away from me!
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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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What did you say, Joe?
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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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