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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.

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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
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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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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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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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.
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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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I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.
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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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If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket.
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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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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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All I had was natural ability.
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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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