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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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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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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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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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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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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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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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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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