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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
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Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
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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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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.
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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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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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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.'
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The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.
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He said to play louder. He can't hear you.
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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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What did you say, Joe?
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
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