Mickey Mantle Quotes

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

Mickey Mantle

All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

Mickey Mantle

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

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.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle

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Born: October 20, 1931

Died: August 13, 1995 (aged 63)

Bio: Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "The Commerce Comet" and "The Mick", was an American professional baseball player.

Known for:

My Favorite Summer 1956 (1991)
All My Octobers (1994)
The quality of courage (1964)
The education of a baseball player (1967)
Letters to Mickey (1995)

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