Mickey Mantle Quotes

• During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Deportes, Béisbol, Media

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Deportes, Béisbol, Juegos

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.42, U of Nebraska Press

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• Un equipo es donde un chico puede demostrar su valor por sí mismo. Una banda es donde un cobarde va a esconderse.

  Mickey Mantle

  Teamwork, Sports, Baseball

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.90, U of Nebraska Press

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• If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

  Mickey Mantle

  Careers, Rose, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Support, Found

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• Alguien me preguntó una vez si alguna vez me acercaba al plato para intentar batear un jonrón. Le respondí: 'Claro, siempre'.

  Mickey Mantle

  Béisbol, Correr, Inicio

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• Después de pegar un jonrón, tenía la costumbre de correr por las bases con la cabeza gacha. Pensaba que el lanzador ya se sentía lo bastante mal como para que yo le pusiera en evidencia corriendo por las bases.

  Mickey Mantle

  Deportes, Béisbol, Correr

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

  Mickey Mantle

  Hero, Long, Waiting

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• I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Coward, Quitter

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• I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Earth

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Lying, Golf, Golf Carts

  Attributed to Mickey Mantle in "Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life" by David Young (p. 189), 2011.

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• Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

  Mickey Mantle

  Mom, Baseball, Country

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Deportes, Béisbol, Diversión

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Courage, Piano, Smell

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• Odiaba batear contra Drysdale. Después de golpearte, se acercaba, te miraba el moratón del brazo y te decía: "¿Quieres que te lo firme?".

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Yankees, Bats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.

  Mickey Mantle

  Proof, Living Proof

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• To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Roosters, Pieces

  Edward Ford, Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Joseph Durso (1977). “Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years”, Viking Adult

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• Si no hubiera conocido a esos dos tipos (Billy Martin y Whitey Ford) al principio de mi carrera, habría durado otros cinco años.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Years, Careers

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Deportes, Béisbol, Correr

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men

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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. He's never received the credit he's due.

  Mickey Mantle

  Deportes, Béisbol, Jugador

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• Mi padre me enseñó a cambiar de bate. Él y mi abuelo, que era zurdo, me lanzaban todos los días después de clase en el patio trasero. Yo bateaba a la izquierda contra mi padre y a la derecha contra mi abuelo.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Hurt, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Play, Hitting, Kind

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• The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Way, Mickey

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