Mickey Mantle Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Running, Home

• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

• It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.42, U of Nebraska Press

• Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Fun

• If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Careers, Looks

• I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Country

• If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Years, Careers

• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Earth

• Thank God for baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Thank God

• I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Bats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• All I have is natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Natural, Ability

• You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

  Mickey Mantle

  Funny, Baseball, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

  Mickey Mantle

  Mom, Baseball, Country

• Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Player

• It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Play

• I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Heard

• Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Guy

• In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.

  Mickey Mantle

  Running, Baseball, Real

• The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Running

• I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Glasses, Tvs

• 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.'

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Doors

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