Mickey Mantle Quotes
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.
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I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.
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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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I play baseball - 'The Show' - a lot. I'm pretty good at that. I go 'Road to the Show,' where you build your own player. I build myself when I used to play as a center fielder. Power, speed, stealing bases.
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While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
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It's time for Dodger baseball!
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For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
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What life throws at you - you just have to learn how to hit it, which is a baseball metaphor. The ball's outside, you hit to the right. You don't let them go by.
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Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.
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Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
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The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I spent my earlier years putting people in the hospital and now I spend my time trying to keep them out of the hospital
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
