After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

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.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

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

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

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

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

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

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 Quote

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

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

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.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.
- Mickey Mantle Quote

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 Quote