“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”
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It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.
Mickey Mantle 
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle
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Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
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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
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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
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