Mickey Mantle Quotes

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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Mantle

Sports, Baseball, Games

Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.42, U of Nebraska Press

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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

Mickey Mantle

Sports, Baseball, Mean

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Mickey Mantle

Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

Mickey Mantle

Careers, Rose, Dresses

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Support, Found

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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.'

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Running, Home

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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

Sports, Baseball, Running

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

Mickey Mantle

Hero, Long, Waiting

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I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Coward, Quitter

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Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Mickey Mantle

Mom, Baseball, Country

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I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Men, Earth

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He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

Mickey Mantle

Lying, Golf, Golf Carts

Attributed to Mickey Mantle in "Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life" by David Young (p. 189), 2011.

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Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

Mickey Mantle

Courage, Piano, Smell

Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Mickey Mantle

Sports, Baseball, Fun

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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 me to sign it?'

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Yankees, Bats

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.

Mickey Mantle

Proof, Living Proof

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I had it all and blew it.

Mickey Mantle

Fame

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

Mickey Mantle

Yankees, Roosters, Pieces

Edward Ford, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Joseph Durso (1977). “Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years”, Viking Adult

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Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Mickey Mantle

Sports, Baseball, Running

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Years, Careers

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No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Men

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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 batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Dad, School

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Mean, Hey

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Thank God for baseball.

Mickey Mantle

Baseball, Thank God

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I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

Mickey Mantle

Men, Dying, World

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Born: October 20, 1931
Died: August 13, 1995
Occupation: Baseball player
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