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There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them. — Charley Pride

The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort but rather the robe of responsibility. — Thomas S. Monson

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not. — Mickey Mantle

He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop. — Mickey Mantle

It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish. — David Falkner

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face. — Mickey Mantle

What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent ... Apparently he also has a pet cougar. — Stacy Mantle

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. — Mickey Mantle

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle. — Mario J. Lucero

To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed. — Rick Perlstein

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. — Tracy Chevalier

Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle. — John F. Kennedy

that mantle of guilt wasn't yours to bear alone, if at all. — Sierra Simone

Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower. — Alfred Billings Street

For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. — Jane Leavy

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head. — Tony Oliva

Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Amos Bronson Alcott

For every cold sphere of life there is a hot mantle available to reach them all — Sunday Adelaja

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

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability. — Mickey Mantle

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw. — Mickey Mantle

Jesus did not need a rod like Moses or a mantle like Elijah to deal with water — Herbert Lockyer

What did you say, Joe? — Mickey Mantle

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. — 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. — 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". — Mickey Mantle

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.' — Mickey Mantle

Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle. — Jose Saramago

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them. — Mickey Mantle

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie. — Mickey Mantle

Night's black Mantle covers all alike. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself! — Mickey Mantle

But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back. — Rabindranath Tagore

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium. — Mickey Mantle

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars. — Khushwant Singh

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back. — Mickey Mantle

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter. — Mickey Mantle

The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party. — Christopher Buckley

I wanted to throw my glass at the TV. — Mickey Mantle

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' — Mickey Mantle

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better. — Mickey Mantle

I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core. — Lauren Slater

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy. — Mickey Mantle

She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth. — Roman Payne

Hey man! Get away from me! — Mickey Mantle

I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing. — Mickey Mantle

I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight. — Mickey Mantle

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him. — Mickey Mantle

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

I do not seek the mantle of genius. I am an appreciator, an observer, a preposition, and content in that, and that's me in a nutshell. — Matthew Pearl

We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress. — Michael Moorcock

Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world. — Thomas Boston

that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently. — Steven F. Havill

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. — Mickey Mantle

That boy Mantle is a good one. — Ty Cobb

Now Nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o'daisies white
Out o'er the grassy lea. — Robert Burns

There's music along the river
For Love wanders there,
Pale flowers on his mantle,
Dark leaves on his hair. — James Joyce

She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all. — Johanna Lindsey

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership. — Marco Rubio

Thank God for baseball. — Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training. — Yogi Berra

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting. — Mickey Mantle

What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero, — Mo Yan

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. — Bert Campaneris

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing. — Mickey Mantle

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. — Haile Selassie

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record. — Mickey Mantle

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche. — Michele Cassou

To find yourself in a land that seems ungodly is to seek God for the mantle to extend kingdom principles there — Sunday Adelaja

A body came flying out and landed at my feet. At first I thought it was Billy so I picked him up. But when I saw it wasn't I dropped him back down. — Mickey Mantle

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

Those people don't know how tough that really was. — Mickey Mantle

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. — Mickey Mantle

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. — Branch Rickey

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle. — Gabe Paul

There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them. — Mickey Mantle

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

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there. — Mickey Mantle

At my best I was as good as anyone. — Mickey Mantle

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was. — Mickey Mantle

True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it. — M.J. Stoddard

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. — Charles Dickens

He said to play louder. He can't hear you. — Mickey Mantle

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen. — Mickey Mantle

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball. — Peter Ueberroth

In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
TO gods and men. — Homer

If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years. — Mickey Mantle

The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams. — Mickey Mantle

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good. — Keith Hernandez

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

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. — Mickey Mantle

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

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket. — Mickey Mantle

It was all I lived for, to play baseball. — Mickey Mantle

Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me? — Mickey Mantle

As far as he knew, I was dying. — Mickey Mantle

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. — Susan Glaspell

Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything. — Mickey Mantle

He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie. — Mickey Mantle