Top 100 Mantle Quotes
#1. Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#2. Yeah, well you know what they say. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
Stacy Mantle
#3. 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
#4. She had simply shed the mantle of slavery as easily as she had worn it, making him realize that she had never really worn it at all.
Johanna Lindsey
#5. When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.
Kitty Kelley
#7. Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession they held so dear.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#8. Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#9. 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
#10. 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.
Mickey Mantle
#11. Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit.
Mickey Mantle
#12. 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
#13. When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.
Mickey Mantle
#14. Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club.
Casey Stengel
#15. Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Mickey W. Mantle
#16. Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.
Mickey Mantle
#17. 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
#18. In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.
Mickey Mantle
#19. 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
#20. Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.
Reggie Jackson
#21. Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.
Jose Saramago
#22. The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle
#23. 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.
Mickey Mantle
#24. My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.
Mickey Mantle
#25. If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.
Mickey Mantle
#26. You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.
Mickey Mantle
#28. 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
#29. You hit .350 you're a leader. You hit .250 and you're not.
Mickey Mantle
#31. Mickey Mantle was a very good golfer, but we weren't allowed to play golf during the season; only at spring training.
Yogi Berra
#33. 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
#34. The best team I ever saw, and I really mean this, was the '61 Yankees.
Mickey Mantle
#35. Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. 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
#37. For Mantle, the Yankees' locker room was a sanctuary, a safe haven where he was understood, accepted and, when necessary, exonerated.
Jane Leavy
#38. Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#39. In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.
Mickey Mantle
#40. I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.
Mickey Mantle
#41. If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'
Mickey Mantle
#42. The time is come," he spoke quietly. "Now, when lesser folk would wither, thou must be true to the blood of thine ancestors. Much greatness is bred in thee; accept now this terrible mantle and take a step nearer thy destiny.
Robin Jarvis
#43. For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented.
Joseph Gies
#46. Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
Branch Rickey
#47. There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.
Mickey Mantle
#48. Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.
Mickey Mantle
#49. On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
Nellie Fox
#50. To claim the mantle of purity is always a risky business. It just gives an excuse to be disillusioned once your ordinary humidity is exposed.
Rick Perlstein
#51. Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.
Haile Selassie
#52. Throughout my life, I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate. Now, at long last, I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.
Greg Bear
#53. 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.
Mickey Mantle
#54. To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle
#55. 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
#56. If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself!
Mickey Mantle
#57. 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.
Mickey Mantle
#59. The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.
Christopher Buckley
#60. 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
#62. But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back.
Rabindranath Tagore
#63. Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.
Mickey Mantle
#64. I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
Mickey Mantle
#65. Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.
Danielle Cormack
#66. Those people don't know how tough that really was.
Mickey Mantle
#67. 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.
Mickey Mantle
#68. Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
Mickey Mantle
#69. There's music along the river
For Love wanders there,
Pale flowers on his mantle,
Dark leaves on his hair.
James Joyce
#70. Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.
Mickey Mantle
#71. 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
#72. I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#73. The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.
Mickey Mantle
#74. Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".
Mickey Mantle
#75. This was not a considered decision. Nor was it a gesture of charity, draped in a warm mantle of maternal kindness. No, this was an act of intuition, sprung from a deep and unspoken feminine knowledge of how the world functions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. 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
#78. To find yourself in a land that seems ungodly is to seek God for the mantle to extend kingdom principles there
Sunday Adelaja
#79. There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a willful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
William Shakespeare
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me every day after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad.
Mickey Mantle
#83. Ralph (Houk) brought out the best in everybody, and that included me. I consider myself lucky to have played for him.
Mickey Mantle
#84. Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak
to whisk me off to foreign lands
I should not trade it for the richest robes,
nor for the mantle of a king.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#85. Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.
Mickey Mantle
#86. He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.
Mickey Mantle
#87. The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer's mantle shot through with diamonds. The stars were so tiny, so far away, and yet, at the moment, with her fingers curled around his, he almost felt as though he could reach up and snag one by the tail.
V.S. Carnes
#88. I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.
Marlee Matlin
#89. Don't do as I did. I'm living proof of how not to live.
Mickey Mantle
#90. Well, I beat my man. Now it's up to you to beat yours.
Mickey Mantle
#91. that's what I love about you," he said. "You help the mantle of senility rest so gently.
Steven F. Havill
#92. They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
Susan Glaspell
#94. tragic Powell, the Company Man Who Could Have Been Great, who was offered the mantle by all the polls but deferred to the Boss's Callow Son and vouched for him,
Garrison Keillor
#95. 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
#96. I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.
Mickey Mantle
#97. If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.
Mickey Mantle
#98. Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
Alfred Billings Street
#99. A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Mickey Mantle
#100. I'm a secular priest ordained by training, experience, and, most important, the willingness to accept the mantle of command. That willingness encompasses the realization that failure is easy, and such failure could kill me or, worse, kill someone else.
Laurence Gonzales
