Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Mantle

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

Mickey Mantle

He said to play louder. He can't hear you.

Mickey Mantle

My views are just about the same as Casey's.

Mickey Mantle

Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

Mickey Mantle

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

Mickey Mantle

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

Mickey Mantle

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

Mickey Mantle

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Mickey Mantle

All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

Mickey Mantle

I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about.

Mickey Mantle

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Mickey Mantle

If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

Mickey Mantle

His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.

Mickey Mantle

The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Mickey Mantle

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.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

Thank God for baseball.

Mickey Mantle

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.

Mickey Mantle

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

Mickey Mantle

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

Mickey Mantle

The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.

Mickey Mantle

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Nicholas Brendon

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

Ned Yost

Rolen's the perfect baseball player. It's his tenacity, his preparation, the way he plays. He tries to do everything fundamentally sound. And he puts the team team first-there's no fanfare with him.

Ned Colletti

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

Mike Piazza

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Mike Piazza

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

Oscar Levant

Ballet is the fairies baseball.