Mickey Mantle's Quotes
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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
Mickey Mantle was baseball.
— Bob Costas
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
— Mickey Mantle
Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
— Mickey Mantle
I never saw him fight. I never saw Billy fight.
— Mickey Mantle
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
— Mickey Mantle
I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.
— Mickey Mantle
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
— Mickey W. Mantle
I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
— Mickey Mantle
Hey man! Get away from me!
— Mickey Mantle
You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.
— Mickey Mantle
I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.
— Mickey Mantle
His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
— 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 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
Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.
— Mickey Mantle
No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.
— Mickey Mantle
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
Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.
— Mickey Mantle
After they remodeled Yankee Stadium I didn't feel that the ghosts were there anymore. It just wasn't the same.
— Mickey Mantle
It's what you're worth.
— Mickey Mantle
I had it all and blew it.
— Mickey Mantle
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
— Mickey Mantle
All I have is natural ability.
— Mickey Mantle
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
— Mickey Mantle
Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.
— Mickey Mantle
Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
— Mickey Mantle
I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!
— Mickey Mantle
You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.
— Mickey Mantle
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
— Mickey Mantle
If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.
— Carl Yastrzemski
You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.
— Mickey Mantle
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
If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.
— Mickey Mantle
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
— Mickey Mantle
Thank God for baseball.
— 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
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
Billy (Martin) wasn't afraid of anything.
— Mickey Mantle
He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie.
— Mickey Mantle
The best hitter I ever saw was Ted Williams.
— 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
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
— Bert Campaneris
Those people don't know how tough that really was.
— Mickey Mantle
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
— Branch Rickey
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
Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
— Mickey Mantle
It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
— Mickey Mantle
What did you say, Joe?
— 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
I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.
— 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
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
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
Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
— Mickey Mantle
He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.
— 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
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
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
