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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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Baseball
Saws
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Greatest
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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I had it all and blew it.
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I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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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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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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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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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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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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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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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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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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