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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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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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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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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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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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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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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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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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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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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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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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I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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