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As far as he knew, I was dying.

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
Baseball
Dying
Knew

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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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Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
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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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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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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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It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.
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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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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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