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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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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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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 wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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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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Hey man! Get away from me!
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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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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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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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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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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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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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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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