All Mickey Mantle Quotes
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
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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.
Mickey Mantle
58% of people like this quote
The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
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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.
Mickey Mantle
57% of people like this quote
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
Mickey Mantle
55% of people like this quote
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Mickey Mantle
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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 enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle
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To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle
54% of people like this quote
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
Mickey Mantle
52% of people like this quote
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
Mickey Mantle
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I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Mickey Mantle
50% of people like this quote
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