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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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