Mickey Mantle Quotes
-
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.
→ -
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
→ -
You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.
→ -
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!
→ -
I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.
→ -
Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.
→ -
Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.
→ -
Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'
→ -
Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.
→ -
It's what you're worth.
→ -
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
→ -
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
→ -
I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
→ -
Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
→ -
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?'
→ -
Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
→ -
Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
→ -
At my best I was as good as anyone.
→ -
I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.
→ -
Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?
→ -
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.
→ -
Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.
→ -
Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
→ -
I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.
→ -
Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.
→ -
Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.
→ -
I've heard about you. I've heard about you, too.
→ -
A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.
→ -
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.
→ -
Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.
→
Related Authors
-
Derek Jeter Baseball player -
Ty Cobb Baseball player -
Babe Ruth Baseball player -
Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball player -
Lou Gehrig Baseball player -
Roger Maris Baseball player -
Albert Pujols Baseball player -
Jackie Robinson Baseball player -
Nolan Ryan Baseball player -
Hank Aaron Baseball player -
Ted Williams Baseball player -
Sandy Koufax Baseball player -
Pete Rose Baseball player -
Yogi Berra Baseball Manager -
Willie Mays Baseball player -
Reggie Jackson Baseball player -
Joe DiMaggio Baseball player -
Stan Musial Baseball player -
Roberto Clemente Baseball player -
Barry Bonds Baseball player