Has beens Quote by Nellie Fox Download Open image “On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.” — Nellie Fox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Has beens Inspirational Legs Mickey Mickey Mantle Two
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions.… — Al Kaline Copy Share Image
He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends,… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never… — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio. — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week. — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work. — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game. — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve. — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White… — Nellie Fox Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
