Best 98 quotes of Mickey Mantle on MyQuotes

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

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

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

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

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

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.

I wanted to throw my glass at the TV.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

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.

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

Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.

Of course, I didn't tell you about all the times I said I was going to hit one and it didn't happen.

People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

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

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

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

Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about (Stan) Musial and (Joe) DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else.

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.

Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you.

Thank God for baseball.

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

The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

There are two kinds of people. There are leaders and there are followers. And I'm a follower.

There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

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.

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

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

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

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.

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

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

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

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

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

Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.

When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

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

You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!

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