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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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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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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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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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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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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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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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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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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 always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
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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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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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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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I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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All I had was natural ability.
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