Mickey Mantle Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.'”
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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.”
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“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.”
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“The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.”
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“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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 seven years without ever hitting the ball.”
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“If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.”
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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.”
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“I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.”
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“All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.”
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“You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.”
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“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”
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“Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.”
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“It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.”
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“The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.”
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“Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.”
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“There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.”
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“Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.”
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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.”
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“After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.”
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“He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.”
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“My views are just about the same as Casey's.”
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“Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.”
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“Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.”
-- Mickey Mantle
