Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mickey Mantle

Casey wanted us to stay loose. That didn't mean clowning around. He just meant we should be confident and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that one strikeout was going to end the season for us.

Mickey Mantle

Billy copied Casey to a 'T.'

Mickey Mantle

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

Mickey Mantle

Hey man! Get away from me!

Mickey Mantle

Butcher boy, damn it, butcher boy.

Mickey Mantle

After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

Mickey Mantle

My views are just about the same as Casey's.

Mickey Mantle

Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?

Mickey Mantle

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

Mickey Mantle

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

Mickey Mantle

It was the single greatest feat I ever saw.

Mickey Mantle

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Mickey Mantle

All I have is natural ability.

Mickey Mantle

The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

Mickey Mantle

Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.

Mickey Mantle

The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.

Mickey Mantle

I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter.

Mickey Mantle

Thank God for baseball.

Mickey Mantle

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Mike Piazza

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Mike Piazza

I was a last round draft pick. Nobody wanted me. I could count the amount of scouts that told me to go to school, to forget baseball.

Paul Gallico

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Lefty Grove

Number one rule, attend to business

Lefty Gomez

I'd rather not throw the ball at all.

Lefty Gomez

I'd rather be lucky than good

Oscar Levant

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

Ken Rosenthal

Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

Any time you play at home you have an advantage, but this year especially with our fans showing up and supporting us. That makes the players more comfortable and we have played a lot of good baseball at home this year.

The kids played hard this year. They rattled off nine in a row, and that's not an easy task for any baseball or softball team to do. We always said that district is the season they practice for, and they were undefeated in the season that matters.

Dusty Baker

The last few days, we haven't been as sharp. Baseball players aren't used to getting up at 5, 6 o'clock every morning. You have one day off in six weeks, that's a pretty good grind.

Mary McGrory

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Prince Fielder

Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.

Gaylord Perry

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.