Mickey Mantle Sports Quotations

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.