#be

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#care #going #i #knew #live

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

— Mickey Mantle

#been #ever #fun #life #nothing

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. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#been #body #brain #else #good

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

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

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

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#creative #creator #exist #history #impulse

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#beat #black #created #jazz #man

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#basically #be the first #cocktail #first #good

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#around #behind #existed #felt #good