184 Quotes by Mickey Mantle

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

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

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

Thank God for baseball.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

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

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.

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

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.