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I never knew how someone dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world. But now I understand.

On his retirement

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

They should have come out of the dugout on tippy-toes, holding hands and singing.

On seeing the Oakland Athletics new green and gold uniforms - 1963

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were -- the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch -- it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

On Whitey Ford

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

To get a better piece of chicken, you'd have to be a rooster.

The slogan he came up with, although it was never used, for his fried chicken franchise in 1968

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

Hell, if I'd known 40–40 was going to be a big deal, I'd have done it every year!

In 1988, when José Canseco became the first MLB player to reach the "40-40 club" with 42 home runs and 40 stolen bases (Mantle's career best for stolen bases in a single season was 21)

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

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

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

Jim Who??

When the media asked for his reaction to Jim Bouton's book, Ball Four

In 1970

Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

When I got back to the clubhouse, I just sat down on my stool and held my head in my hands, like I was going to start crying. I heard somebody come up to me, and it was little Timmy Berra, Yogi’s boy, standing there next to me. He tapped me on the knee, nice and soft, and I figured he was going to say something nice to me, you know, like, “You keep hanging in there,” or something like that, but all he did was look at me, and then he said in his little kid’s voice, “You stink.”

On an uncharacteristically awful afternoon when he’d struck out three consecutive times

During the 1950’s
Mickey Charles Mantle
New York Yankees
OF
HOF 1974; a.k.a., "The Commerce Comet"

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