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

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

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 DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle

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

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
Mickey Mantle

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

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
Mickey Mantle

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Mickey Mantle

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
Mickey Mantle

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
Mickey Mantle


I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
Mickey Mantle

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Mickey Mantle

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

My views are just about the same as Casey's.
Mickey Mantle

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle

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

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

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Mickey Mantle