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Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys. -- Bert Campaneris
Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training. -- Yogi Berra
For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated. -- Jane Leavy
I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head. -- Tony Oliva
I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years. -- Sandy Koufax
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears. -- J. R. Moehringer
In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003. -- Jane Leavy
He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him. -- Jane Leavy
Mickey Mantle was baseball. -- Bob Costas
Night's black Mantle covers all alike. -- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball. -- Peter Ueberroth
That boy Mantle is a good one. -- Ty Cobb
Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle. -- Mel Allen
If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year! -- Ted Williams
(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years. -- Bill James
He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great. -- Casey Stengel
If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs. -- Carl Yastrzemski
Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club. -- Casey Stengel
On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. -- Nellie Fox
And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that? -- Mel Allen
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. -- Branch Rickey
Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's. -- Bill James
Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good. -- Keith Hernandez
I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle. -- Gabe Paul
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them. -- Charley Pride
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years. -- Ted Williams
I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years. -- Sandy Koufax
In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate. -- Mel Allen
He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do. -- Casey Stengel
Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle. -- Gabe Paul
Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst. -- Mickey Mantle
I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused. -- Marlee Matlin
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known. -- Michael Shermer
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business. -- Sheryl Crow
I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four! -- Swoosie Kurtz
It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom. -- Kenneth Oppel
Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. -- Ron Fournier
My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure. -- Ron Reagan
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are. -- James Young
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts. -- Ernestine Rose
In the spring of 1957, Mickey Mantle was the king of New York. He had the Triple Crown to prove it, having become only the 12th player in history to earn baseball's gaudiest jewel. In 1956, he had finally fulfilled the promise of his promise, batting .353, with 52 homers and 130 RBIs. Everybody loved Mickey. -- Jane Leavy
Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too. -- Al Kaline
I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward. -- David Duchovny
I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky's son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle's and Michael Jordan's, and he came up with a great concept. -- Willie McCovey
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There's only one band that could ever even pretend to assume the mantle of what the Beatles did, who have been so pre-eminent and world-dominating that they could effect a paradigm shift in the culture, who have been willing to leverage their success into musical change, and that is U2 - regardless of what the result of that is. -- Todd Rundgren
At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home run record across the country. -- Jane Leavy
I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card. -- Johnny Bench
Illusion is the mantle of the Real -- Frederick Franck
Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle. -- John F. Kennedy
There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle. -- John Darnielle
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership. -- Marco Rubio
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. -- Susan Glaspell
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. -- Thomas Campbell
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle. -- Jose Saramago
Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor. -- Haile Selassie
In saffron-colored mantle from the tides Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light TO gods and men. -- Homer
There's music along the river For Love wanders there,Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair." -- James Joyce
Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself. -- Scott Snyder
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. -- Tracy Chevalier
I didn't know then that the mind, like the earth, has several layers: a crust, a mantle, a boiling core. -- Lauren Slater
When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche. -- Michele Cassou
Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea. -- Robert Burns
Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower. -- Alfred Billings Street
She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawn like a mantle of cloth. -- Roman Payne
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right. -- Robert L. Park
Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world. -- Thomas Boston
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes ... -- Jeremy Bentham
When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars. -- Khushwant Singh
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. -- Charles Dickens
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more. -- Walter Savage Landor
We made America more respected around the world, took on the mantle of leadership in the fight to protect this planet for our kids, and much, much more. -- Barack Obama
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend. -- William Somervile
I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. Theyre in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four! -- Swoosie Kurtz
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle. -- Claude Monet
Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape. -- Douglas Brinkley
In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence. -- Hillary Clinton
I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle. -- John Hawkes
Something is being released in the spiritual realm, when it does go to the phone. When the mantle gets passed to you go to the phone and sow a $70 tithe to the $700 pledge. -- Mark Chironna
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent. -- Alexander Lowen
It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves. -- John Boyne
On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves. -- John Townsend Trowbridge

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