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What did you say, Joe?

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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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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All I had was natural ability.
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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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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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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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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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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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