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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
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Mickey Mantle Quotes
American
-
Athlete
October 20
, 1931 -
August 13
, 1995
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle
Game
,
Been
,
Unbelievable
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle
Prove
,
Hide
,
His
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle
Better
,
Going
,
Knew
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
Home Run
,
Plate
,
Sure
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
Mickey Mantle
Nothing
,
Been
,
Ever
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
Think
,
I Think
,
Been
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
Mickey Mantle
Golf
,
Never
,
Bad
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
Concerned
,
Before
,
Joe
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
Mickey Mantle
Country
,
Guess
,
Could
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
Mickey Mantle
Play
,
Ball
,
The Only Thing
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
Mickey Mantle
Game
,
How
,
Get
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
Always
,
Bad
,
Joe
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
Mickey Mantle
Play
,
Army
,
Want
The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle
Game
,
Ever
,
Biggest
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle
Play
,
Yankee
,
Yankee Stadium
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
Run
,
Home Run
,
Mattered
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
Mickey Mantle
Play
,
Lived
,
Play Baseball
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
Mickey Mantle
Running
,
Ball
,
Bases
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
Run
,
Bad
,
Had
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
Mickey Mantle
Love
,
Game
,
Always
I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
Mickey Mantle
Never
,
Manager
,
Natural
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
Mickey Mantle
You
,
Hear
,
Those
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
Man
,
Ever
,
Ballplayer
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
Play
,
By The Time
,
TV
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
Mickey Mantle
Same
,
About
,
Casey
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