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Some of the things
Mickey said during his lifetime about his career, baseball and life in general. |
| "I have had a great
life. I was blessed with more natural talent, played for a great team, with great
teammates, made a comfortable living for myself and my family, and acquired more fans and
friends than anyone could deserve." |
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 | "I suppose it's human nature, but the
Yankees of my era looked on the World Series as kind of a birthright." |
| "There isn't anything in sports quite like
the seventh game of a World Series. Unlike the Super Bowl, it has taken you a week of
games, not interviews, to get there." |
| "The worst disappointment of my baseball career, and one that hurts to this day, was our loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960 World Series. The better team lost, the only time I truly felt that way." |
| "Yet even as the years grew lean, I became aware that my place in the game, the image people had of me, had taken on a kind of permanence." |
| "I never really could explain it. I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit. Everything just seemed to come together." |
| "Ted Williams was a real hitter. Me, I just got up there and swung for the roof ever' time and waited to see what would happen." |
| "If I was playing today, the first thing I'd say to the owner in the morning would be, 'Hello, partner.'" |
| "I hated striking out, but I always tried to kill the ball. I wanted to make it explode." |
| "I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about." |
| "The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees." |
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MICKEY MANTLE QUOTES