Quotes of Mickey Mantle - somelinesforyou

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- 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

“ 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

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- 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

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

- 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

“ 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

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Mickey Mantle

“ If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself! ”

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- Mickey Mantle

“ But god-damn, to think you're a .300 hitter and end up at .237 in your last season, then find yourself looking at a lifetime .298 average - it made me want to cry. ”

- Mickey Mantle

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

- 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

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

- 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

“ But god-damn, to think you're a .300 hitter and end up at .237 in your last season, then find yourself looking at a lifetime .298 average - it made me want to cry. ”

- Mickey Mantle

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

- 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

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

- 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

“ 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. ”

- Mickey Mantle
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