Quotes from Mickey Mantle

Hey man! Get away from me!

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

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.

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.

I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.

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.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

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.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

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

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

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.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.