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25 quotes by Mickey Mantle

MLB debut April 17, 1951 for the New York Yankees Last MLB appearance September 28, 1968 for the New York Yankees Career statistics Batting average .298 Home runs 536 Hits 2,415 Runs batted in 1,509 Teams New York Yankees (1951–1968) Career highlights and awards 20× All-Star (1952–1965, 1967, 1968) 7× World Series champion (1951–1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) 3× AL MVP (1956, 1957, 1962) Triple Crown (1956) Gold...
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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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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

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

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

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It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

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

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

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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... →

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

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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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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.... →

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

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

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