Mickey Mantle Quotes

There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

That white man not only stood up at the plate but knocked the ball over the fence.

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

I always try to have some good at-bats. Home runs come once in a while; that's good.

It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

You don't hope to go up and hit a single. You go up and hope to hit a home run.

You always dream about your first homer and your 100th.

Each time I go back to bat, I will want to get more and more runs.

I came up as a number 2 hitter. My first year I hit 16 homers, and I was like, Whoa, I'm rollin'!

I don't really care how we done it, we done it.

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

I probably hit 35 balls into the right-field bleachers.

The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

If my barrel meets the ball, I think good things are going to happen.

If I don't get hits, I don't get hits, but I'm trying to get hits.

That's where my focus is all the time, trying to get on base.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.