It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life. – Mickey Mantle
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. – Mickey Mantle
When I hit a home run I usually didn’t care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. – Mickey Mantle
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. – Mickey Mantle
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It’s the only thing I know. – 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
Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else’s brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. – Mickey Mantle
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. – Mickey Mantle
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. – Mickey Mantle
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. – Mickey Mantle
I always loved the game, but when my legs weren’t hurting it was a lot easier to love. – Mickey Mantle
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, ‘Sure, every time.’ – Mickey Mantle
