Mickey Mantle Quotes

If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

That’s it?” Jason asked. “You spent an hour talking about how lucky you were to be dying?” No, not dying, Son. Living.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

Be grateful for small mercies.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have what I have. Nobody can be prepared for anything. If you end up in a place where you can look back and go, 'It happened, but I'm so lucky to be sitting where I am sitting...'

I never understood how someone who was dying could say he was the luckiest man in the world, but now I understand.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Seriously, I am not a person that I think much about what happened or what didn't happen or what could happen. I happy about the things that happened to me. I'm a lucky person, for sure, for all the things that happened to me during my life.

I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

You take what God gives you and relish it.

I've been grateful for what comes along.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.