Mickey Mantle Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Men, Dying, World

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• The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Saws

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• All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

  Mickey Mantle

  Names, Sound, Fans

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Play, Hitting, Kind

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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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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• I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Hurt, Games

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

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• The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Team, Mean

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Country

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• 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

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• Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

  Mickey Mantle

  Names, Cards, Chance

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• The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Way, Mickey

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• 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.

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Guy

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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.'

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Doors

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• When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

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• At my best I was as good as anyone.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball

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• You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

  Mickey Mantle

  Long, Enough, Talk To Me

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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.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Fall, Hair

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• It's what you're worth.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball

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• They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Hands, Should Have, Yankees

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Years, Play

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• All I have is natural ability.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Natural, Ability

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• 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

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• Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Hero, Player

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