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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
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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What did you say, Joe?
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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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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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His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
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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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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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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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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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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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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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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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