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Mickey Mantle Quotes: Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
         

Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.


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

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



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

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



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

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



I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.

I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out.



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.

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.



If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.

If I had played my career hitting singles like Pete (Rose), I'd wear a dress.



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

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



You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.



Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.



I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.





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Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!

Be bold! You will then see that life will find no time to attack you, because you are attacking it!



History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

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That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.

That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.



To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.



I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.



Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

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Through adversity we find our heroes.



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