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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

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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Greatest
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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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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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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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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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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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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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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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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