Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

"The root of joy is gratefulness."

American is deteriorating because it is becoming like other countries

Better a barefoot than none.

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

I don't believe in retirement.