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

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
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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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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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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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What did you say, Joe?
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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As far as he knew, I was dying.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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Those people don't know how tough that really was.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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.
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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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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
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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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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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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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Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.
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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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Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
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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!
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