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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

Mickey Mantle

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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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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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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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
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If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
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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 wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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 always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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What did you say, Joe?
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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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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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