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.

Life Game You Know

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

Life Baseball Fun Nothing

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

Courage Team Boy Hide

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

Myself Live Long Care Better

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

Best Play Happen Years

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Game You Easy Realize

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Baseball Play Lived Play Baseball

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

Lie Bad Golf Never

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

Me Fight Baseball Army

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.

Good Think Brain Body

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Home Time Me Run

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

Baseball I Can Know Play

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.

Good People Bad Way

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

Same Just About Views

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

You Care Who Hear

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

Game Perfect Ever Biggest

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.

Home Me Bad Down

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

You Country Say Guess

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.

Best Baseball Never Credit

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

Tough Easy Ball Running

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

Love Loved Game Always

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

Never Manager Ability Natural

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

Good 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.

Good Time Today School

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.

Home Long Care Run

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