Mickey Mantle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“It was all I lived for, to play baseball.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.”

“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.”

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

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

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