American - Athlete | October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle
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Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
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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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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.
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My views are just about the same as Casey's.
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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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You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
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If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
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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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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.
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Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
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