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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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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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My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
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I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
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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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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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This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.
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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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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'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
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I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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I had it all and blew it.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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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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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
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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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