Mickey Mantle Quotes

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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…
• The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
• 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…
• All I had was natural ability.
• 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…
• If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.
• In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost.…
• It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
• 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…
• The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
• 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.
• I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go…
• You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
• If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.
• I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
• I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
• I had it all and blew it.
• A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
• It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

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