Top 25 Quotes by Mickey Mantle

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.