Top 25 Quotes by Mickey Mantle

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.

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.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

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

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

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

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

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

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

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