Author: Mickey Mantle

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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