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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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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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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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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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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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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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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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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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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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We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
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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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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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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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I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
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