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Baseball Quotes by Mickey Mantle
- 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.
- It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
- 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…
- You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
- All I have is natural ability.
- 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…
- Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
- Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases.
- Ou don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
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