Mickey Mantle Quotes

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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• I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Home
  • Alone

• I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • World
  • Game
  • Baseball

• I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Important
  • Baseball
  • Stand

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • True
  • Person
  • Playing

• 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.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Night
  • Band
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Think
  • Baseball

• 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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Done
  • Way
  • Baseball

• 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.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Power
  • Pretty

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Baseball

• It's time for Dodger baseball!

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • Baseball

• 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.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Baseball

• Just flush it if something bad happens. That's the way I was raised to play baseball.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Bad
  • Baseball

• 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.

  

  Dizzy Dean
  • People
  • English
  • Baseball

• Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • High
  • Free

• When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Baseball

• I think it's a natural fit, major league baseball and country music.

  

  Joe Nichols
  • Music
  • Country
  • Baseball

• There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

  

  Steve Largent
  • Game
  • Playing
  • Coach

• When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Time
  • Young

• I had never heard of Meghan before. I was beautifully surprised when I walked into that room and saw her, and there she was, sitting there. I thought, 'I am really going to have to up my game here, sit down, and make sure I've got a good chat.'

  

  Prince Harry
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

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

  

  Mickey Mantle
  • Baseball
  • Playing
  • Unbelievable