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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
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Texas
Mickey Charles Mantle
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I had it all and blew it.
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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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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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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
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The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
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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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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.
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Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
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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 hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.
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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
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What did you say, Joe?
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Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
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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'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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