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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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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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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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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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What did you say, Joe?
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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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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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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I had it all and blew it.
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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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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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