Mickey Mantle Quotes About Baseball
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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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To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
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You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.
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I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
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I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
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Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.
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Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'
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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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It's what you're worth.
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The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
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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 think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
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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?'
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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
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Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
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At my best I was as good as anyone.
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Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
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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.
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Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
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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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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.
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Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
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I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
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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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Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.
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Thank God for baseball.
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I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
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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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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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