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Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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 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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What did you say, Joe?
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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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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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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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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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