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Those people don't know how tough that really was.

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
Baseball
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People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.
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I had it all and blew it.
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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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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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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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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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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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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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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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've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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All I have is natural ability.
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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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