Quotes by Mickey Mantle

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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

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

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. – Mickey Mantle

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn’t like each other and that we didn’t get along. Nothing could be further from the truth. – 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

As far as I’m concerned, (Hank) 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

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It’s the only thing I know. – Mickey Mantle

It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life. – Mickey Mantle

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up. – Mickey Mantle

You don’t realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. – Mickey Mantle

I don’t care who you are, you hear those boos. – Mickey Mantle

I’ll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. – Mickey Mantle

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home. – Mickey Mantle

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the ’61 Yankees.I never got to see the ’27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever, but I think it would’ve been a great series if we’d have had the chance to play them. – Mickey Mantle

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. – Mickey Mantle

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen’s perfect game. – Mickey Mantle

It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life. – 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

It was all I lived for, to play baseball. – Mickey Mantle

All I had was natural ability. – Mickey Mantle

My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. – Mickey Mantle

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

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I’d wear a dress. – Mickey Mantle

If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. – Mickey Mantle

I hated to bat against (Don) Drysdale. After he hit you he’d come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, ‘Do you want me to sign it? – 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