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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. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#ball #by the time #each #field #games

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. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#bad #beyond #century #dimaggio #good

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

— Mickey Mantle

#easier #game #hurting #i #i always

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. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#as far as #ball #ball player #baseball #before

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#baseball #fight #i #me #play

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

— Mickey Mantle

#baseball #i #i can #know #only

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

— Mickey Mantle

#best #could #ever #happen #play

I love the season changes. ↗

— Richard Manuel

#i #i love #love #season

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. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#hit #home #home run #i #long

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#cone #eat #free #god #good