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Mickey Mantle [1931-1995] American

Rank: 102
Athlete, Baseball player

Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "The Commerce Comet" and "The Mick", was an American professional baseball player. Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951 through 1968.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.	Courage	101
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.		102
Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.		103
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.		104
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.		105
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.		106
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.		107
Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.		108
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.	Home	109
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.	Home	110
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.		111
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.		112
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'		113
It was all I lived for, to play baseball.		114
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.		115
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.		116
I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.		117
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.		118
My views are just about the same as Casey's.		119
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.		120
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.		121
Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.		122
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.		123
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.		124
The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.		125

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