Quote

As far as he knew, I was dying.

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
Dying
Knew
Baseball

More quotes by Mickey Mantle

Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
Mickey Mantle
Image
He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
Mickey Mantle
Image
I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle
Image
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
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
I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
Mickey Mantle
Image
I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
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 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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
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
People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.
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
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
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
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.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
Mickey Mantle
Image
The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
Mickey Mantle