Quote

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

Mickey Mantle

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mickey Mantle
Age: 63 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 20
Died: 1995
Died: August 13
Baseball Player
Dallas
Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle
Seem
Playing
Seems
Reason
Popular
Baseball

More quotes by Mickey Mantle

Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
Mickey Mantle
Image
This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
Mickey Mantle
Image
As far as he knew, I was dying.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Those people don't know how tough that really was.
Mickey Mantle
Image
There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.'
Mickey Mantle
Image
To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
Mickey Mantle