“Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.”
Source: Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years
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Famous Mickey Mantle Quotes
“I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.”
“I don't know why, but for some reason I seem to be more popular now than when I was playing.”
“No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.”
“A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”
Source: The Quality of Courage
“It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.”
Source: The Quality of Courage
“Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.”
“To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.”
“You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.”
“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.”
“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.”