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Mickey Mantle
American
Athlete
About the author
The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Home
#Care
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Years
#Play
#Yankee
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Fun
#Nothing
#Baseball
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Life
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Running
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Play
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Golf
#Lie
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Courage
I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Ability
#Manager
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,
American
Athlete
#Years
#Baseball
#Credit
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Baseball
#Play
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,
American
Athlete
#People
#Question
#Heroes
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Love
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Care
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Country
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Baseball
#Play
#Fight
#Army
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Care
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,
American
Athlete
#Home
#Habit
#Running
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Games
#Play
#Today
#School
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Man
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,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Home
#Trying
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.
Mickey Mantle,
American
Athlete
#Ability
#Body