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" I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love. "
Mickey Mantle
Love
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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. "
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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. "
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" Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. "
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" 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. "
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" I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability. "
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" The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't care who you are, you hear those boos. "
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" I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about. "
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You
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" A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. "
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" I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. "
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" Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' "
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" Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. "
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Nothing
Life
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" 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. "
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