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Famous Mickey Mantle Quotes
“His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.”
“The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.”
“I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.”
“Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.”
“My views are just about the same as Casey's.”
“Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.”
“Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.”
“This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.”
“The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.”
“It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.”
“I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.”
“The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.”
“The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.”
“There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.”
“You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.”
“Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.”
“It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.”