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He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.

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
Lying
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Never
Cart
Carts
Fastest

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What did you say, Joe?
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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.
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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.
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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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It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.
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I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
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Hey man! Get away from me!
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The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
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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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Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
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I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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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There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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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All I have is natural ability.
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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.
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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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