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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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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
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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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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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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'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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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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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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A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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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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