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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
Mickey Mantle
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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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Saws
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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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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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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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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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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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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 don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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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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Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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All I had was natural ability.
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What did you say, Joe?
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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 hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
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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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