184 Quotes by Mickey Mantle

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

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

I hated to bat against 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?’

Those people don’t know how tough that really was.

I’ve often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

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.

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

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn’t mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn’t feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

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