Author: Mickey Mantle

Quotes

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

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

- Mickey Mantle

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Mickey Mantle

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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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