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I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.

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Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
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Dallas
Texas
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All I had was natural ability.
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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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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.
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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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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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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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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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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
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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've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
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